Tina Turner Quotes

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner

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• It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Important
  • Future
  • Failure

• When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Thought
  • See
  • Now

• I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Dream
  • Acting
  • Own

• It is long overdue that we have a woman as a legitimate contender for the White House. But Hillary Clinton is the definition of the establishment so many are determined to reject.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Long
  • House
  • Woman

• With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Down
  • Looking
  • Edge

• The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Game
  • Technology

• Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • People
  • Art
  • Inspiration

• I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Sports
  • Mad

• During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

  

  Fred Allen
  • Men
  • Today
  • Small

• I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Hate

• Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster forgot how to eat, too. Soon, Mike Webster was homeless, living in a truck, one of its windows replaced with a garbage bag and tape.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Truck

• Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

  

  Betty Dodson
  • Women
  • Sacrifice

• It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Responsibility
  • Regret

• You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Done

• It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me.

  

  Alice Barrett
  • People
  • Support
  • Leaving

• I hate BYU. There are a lot of Mormons that don't like BYU.

  

  Bryce Harper
  • Hate

• What we shouldn't be doing is borrowing money to give benefits to the most fortunate, to put the burden and pull the rug out of those who struggle the most.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Money
  • Struggle

• Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were 'Big Bird.'

  

  Joan Ganz Cooney
  • Children
  • Words
  • Star

• After moving to California, I decided to go back to school and get an education on various aspects of the entertainment industry.

  

  Andrea Navedo
  • School
  • Education
  • Moving

• 'Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I’m far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I’ll probably stick to telly, if telly’ll have me, though I wouldn’t mind doing radio plays as well.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Mind
  • Weird

• Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Singing

• ...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people who could remember those parts of you disappear, and before long, all that's left is your name in some ledger. This...person -- she had a favorite food. She had friends and people she disliked. We don't even know how she died...I guess that's why I like preservation better than history. In preservation I feel like I can keep some of it from slipping away.

  

  Katherine Howe
  • People
  • Long
  • Remember

• One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Different
  • Wife

• I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner