Tina Turner Quotes
They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
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I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.
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Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.
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As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
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TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.
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I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.
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I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.
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Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.
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I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
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Time only has value when it intersects with energy.
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My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
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Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.
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Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.
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It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.
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When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Change takes courage.
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They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.
