Turn-on Quotes - Page 11

• There was an era when people would turn on their radio and hear a radio drama. Now, you could be as scared by that as seeing it filmed. In those days, people used to sit by the fire and imagine what they were hearing. Everything is its own art form.

  Martin Short

  Art, Drama, Fire

  Source: collider.com

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• I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. Theres a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. Its the same in relationships.

  Tracy McMillan

  Thinking, Order, Masculine And Feminine

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• I didn’t even cry, I was stunned. You know, and that’s just how fast life turns. It turns on a dime.

  Sandra Lee

  Life, Dimes, Turns

  Good Morning America Interview, www.inquisitr.com. May 12, 2015.

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• If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don't last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.

  Tom Lehrer

  Running, Cities, Two

  "Pollution" (song) (1965)

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• If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

  Bayard Rustin

  Fighting, Degrees, Turns

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to lean into the turn. On every creative aspect, you have to lean into what's working.

  Billy Lawrence

  Creative, Aspect, Turns

  "The Showrunner Transcript: Cougar Town's Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel on the Show's Transformation and Masturbating Time Travelers". Interview with Josef Adalian, www.vulture.com. May 18, 2011.

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• After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, "Oh my god, how girls get ready? This is hilarious, I love this, I'm forgetting about all my problems."

  Lilly Singh

  Girl, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It takes a great deal of humility to recognize you have made a wrong turn on the road to successful innovation, but better to stop and try a radically different approach then to continue down the wrong route for too long.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Humility, Successful, Long

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.

  Mary Harron

  Thinking, Turns

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I'm like, "I want to go to Mars. This is insane." But I can't go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Reality, Insane, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.

  Leland Ryken

  Biblical, Done, Way

  Leland Ryken (1984). “How to Read the Bible as Literature”, p.12, Zondervan

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• We have to laugh. Life is hard and the news is often grim - you should be able to turn on NPR's Weekend Edition every week and know that we are going to make you think, make you question - and make you laugh, preferably out loud.

  Rachel Martin

  Thinking, Weekend, Npr

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• A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually.

  Denis Dutton

  Wall, Years, Bills

  "Denis Dutton dies; author, philosopher, brother to L.A. booksellers" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 28, 2010.

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• That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

  Kajol

  Men, Ankles, Sari

  "In today's cinema, it is difficult to say who the heroine is and who is the vamp: Tanuja in conversation with daughter Kajol". Interview with Prachi Bhuchar and Prachi Rege, indiatoday.intoday.in. December 14, 2012.

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• The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.

  Bill Walton

  Responsibility, People, Television

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• I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.

  Don DeLillo

  Country, Fall, Cutting

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.58, Vintage

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• I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.

  Al Yankovic

  Running, Animal, Light

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• There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

  Anthony Anderson

  Actors, Turns

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven't seen in years. Like "Coming to America" (1988) or "Misery" (1990) or "Moonstruck" (1987).

  Morena Baccarin

  Years, America, Tvs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.

  Joshua Bell

  Football, Airplane, Journey

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• I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

  Billy Joel

  Inspirational, Competition, Age

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• When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Stupid, Want, Tvs

  "Stupidity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

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• When I turn on my central air conditioner, I feel like, "Wow, I really have come a long way." Or buying the super expensive organic raw food for my dogs, and I remember when I had to buy the cheapest big bag of kibble. So I think for me it's often in terms of comfort.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Dog, Thinking, Air

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

  Joseph Stilwell

  Publicity, Flattery, Power Of Love

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