Tina Turner Quotes
My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
-
There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
-
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
-
When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
-
As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
-
When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
-
I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
-
Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.
-
When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.
-
I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.
-
Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.
-
I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
-
Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.
-
The Chinese enjoyed the spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking the world was anything else.
-
A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)
-
'Tell me, scientist to scientist, do you honestly think it will work?''We won’t know until we try,' Naqi said. Any other answer would have been politically hazardous: too much optimism and the politicians would have started asking just why the expensive project was needed in the first place. Too much pessimism and they would ask exactly the same question.
-
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-
If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
-
You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.
-
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
-
I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.
-
The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.
-
My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
