Tina Turner Quotes
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Oh what's love got to do, got to do with it What's love but a second hand emotion What's love got to do, got to do with it Who needs a heart When a heart can be broken
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On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.
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Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
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I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life
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Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.
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I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
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I've never bothered about my color.
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On board the new Ironsides, I had the Marine guard stationed at the after gun, thirty-five in number, and I think it was conceded that no gun of that heavy battery was worked more efficiently than the "Marine gun" as it was called.
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This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
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You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.
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I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
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My parents separated when I was younger
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I believe in prayer and in strong belief.
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Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.
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I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.
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After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.
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I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.
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I am attracted to myths.
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The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The British people basically let you see what they want you to see.
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The choice that I made was from my best music, for the songs that I knew that the public liked. Then, when I recorded my new songs I found that my old material had not faded, it was still current, the music was good and the songs were great. I sat in my house and listened, got the chills, and I thought, how great is that? It hasn't dated, it hasn't gone anywhere, and it's great.
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My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.
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I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
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When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked.
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Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some