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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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.

  

  Clyde Edgerton
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Strong

• You can only write your own vision.

  

  Ann Maxwell
  • Vision

• You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

  

  John Hartford
  • Real

• I have a regular, normal private life.

  

  Francois-Henri Pinault
  • Life

• 'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • Fashion

• I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

  

  Frank Lampard
  • Different
  • Age
  • Career

• I'd always thought I was pretty healthy and I always thought I had worked hard in the gym and it turns out that what I thought was hard, in Catwoman's world, is actually light to moderate.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Healthy
  • Gym
  • Catwoman

• There were the people that believed in me when I was walking around Spanish Harlem, saying that I was going to be a Hollywood actress. They were like, 'Yeah, you could do it!'

  

  Paula Garces
  • People
  • Walking
  • Spanish

• In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Important
  • Transformation

• We need to revisit that planning decision because in many cases across our capital [London], greenbelt land doesn't deserve the name. Car parks, quarries and wastelands are being protected and we are saying there isn't enough land to build the houses we need.

  

  David Lammy
  • House
  • Decision
  • Planning

• 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