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• We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!

  Richard Trumka

  Running, Independent, Leader

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• I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.

  Tom Lehrer

  People, Television, Stuff

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.

  Stefanie Powers

  Kissing, Guy, Cooking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

  Aimee Mann

  Fall, Years, Car

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• I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.

  Lucy Punch

  Party, Guests, Dinner

  "Q & A With Lucy Punch: Woody Allen's New Film, Eating Geographically and Why Offal Is Off-Limits". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

  Walker Percy

  Discovery, May, Way

  Walker Percy (1988). “The moviegoer”

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• There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty - hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun - and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light.

  Andreas Moritz

  Life, Fun, Light

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• Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.

  Fred Small

  Lying, Simple, Light

  "Environmental Songs". Interview with Steve Curwood, www.planetpatriot.net. April 18, 1997.

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• Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to incarnate experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Needs, Tvs

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• That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

  Morgan Freeman

  Directors, Want, Bigs

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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• We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.

  Bob Schieffer

  Jobs, People, News

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• I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

  Ethel Merman

  Book, Sleep, Pills

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Spiritual, Fun, Pain

  Norman Vincent Peale (1977). “The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...”, Hallmark Cards

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• Are you up to the challenge? Are you going to be a reproduction or an original? Will you strive to be innovative or imitative? Are you ready to take your turn on the page, turn up the heat, turn it on?

  Phil Cousineau

  Challenges, Pages, Heat

  Phil Cousineau (2008). “Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination”, p.23, Conari Press

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• There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will forever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all.

  John Boyne

  Hate, Men, Self

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• It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Running, Dark, Meditation Practice

  Sharon Salzberg (2017). “Real Happiness: A 28-day Programme to Connect with the Power of Meditation”, p.94, Hay House, Inc

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• To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hate, Voice, Hopeful

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights.

  Hugh Hefner

  Sex, Book, Dark

  Interview with Larry Dubois, iplayboy.com. January 1, 1974.

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• I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Thinking, Voice, Important

  "Luciano Pavarotti Is Dead at 71" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. September 6, 2007.

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• I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.

  Mordecai Richler

  Mom, Pain, Dad

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• Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.

  Jean Chretien

  Yelling, House, Television

  "Straight from the Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• But people turn on their televisions. They turn on their televisions and they see what's happening in Iraq. The American people are not stupid. And the one thing they understand, they understand how incredibly mismanaged and bungled this war has been by the civilians in this administration. And - I mean, you can't paper over that, any more than you can paper over Katrina.

  Joe Biden

  War, Stupid, Mean

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 16, 2006.

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• Boredom has to be the most life sapping, mental disease you can be afflicted with.The most accurate definition of boredom I have ever heard is this - Boredom is the absence of a creative idea. But there is a simple cure - begin to think immediately of a better way to do something. The creative juices are within you but you must turn on the tap. Those who are bored are not living; they are dying. When their heart stops beating, it will be a mere formality. The best way to do anything has never been thought of. Get on a creative improvement kick and jar others mentally into the same activity.

  Bob Proctor

  Heart, Simple, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 28, 2012

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• Whoever came up with "hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode" should be shot.

  Linus Torvalds

  Keys, Eight, Keyboards

  Google+ blog, plus.google.com. June 23, 2013.

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