Turn-on Quotes - Page 14

• If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

  Karen Black

  Sorry, Believe, America

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• Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Inspirational, Art, Gestures

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• I wake up at 4:15 A.M., get some coffee, turn on the news, see what's happening, go clickety-clack on the web to see what I missed overnight. Then I go to the gym, around 5:15, and I do what appears to be a very light workout, but who cares. I'm socializing with other nice people at the gym. Then I go into work, and I'm really awake.

  Hoda Kotb

  Workout, Nice, Coffee

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• If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening.

  Dr. Dre

  Gun, Soldier, Tvs

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• When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

  James Richardson

  Writing, Trying, Hearing

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• Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

  Marianne Williamson

  Magic, Midlife, Force

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?

  Morgan Freeman

  Names, Oregon, Eric

  "Morgan Freeman Article Provides Valid View of the Sandy Hook Shootings and Our Media" by L. Steven Sieden, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2012.

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• I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do!

  John Travolta

  Holiday, Ideas, Tvs

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• My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.

  Timothy Leary

  People, Advice, Tunes

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• You really can't turn on TLC without seeing us.

  Paige Davis

  Vision, Turns, Seeing

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• ...Say somebody shot somebody....We...are so concerned about whether this evidence was admitted properly...(and) not recognize the intrusion into our sacred individuality that is being caused every time people turn on the faucet? ...I am astounded by how much untruth has been officially promulgated (pro fluoridation).

  John Flaherty

  Dark, People, Individuality

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• Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.

  Alton Brown

  Wine, Enemy, One Day

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• I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

  Mose Allison

  Years, Ideas, Tunes

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• Turn on, tune up, rock out.

  Billy Gibbons

  Rocks, Tunes, Rock N Roll

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• When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!

  Peter Kreeft

  Silly, Son, Dark

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• He [Chris Martin] can't have background music on. It has to be 100 percent of his attention. But if he isn't at home, I turn on the hip-hop. I'm like a bad mutha rapping along to every word as I cook.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Rap, Home

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• Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but failed to realize that eventually the craziness would take on a life of its own, and that the monster they created would turn on its creators as well as the little people.

  Paul Krugman

  Party, Believe, Cutting

  "The Economics and Politics of Chaos" by Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. October 01, 2013.

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• A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Men, Want, Lasts

  "10 Things You Don't Know About Women: Jennifer Coolidge". www.esquire.com. February 27, 2008.

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• The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

  Jared Diamond

  Book, Media, Iraq

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• Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?

  Jonathan Demme

  Country, Watches, News

  "Conversation: Director Jonathan Demme on His New Film and Hero, Carolyn Parker". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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• Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.

  Jenna Elfman

  People, Interesting, Week

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. June 15, 2006.

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• Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - and do my own workout, even if it's a short one. Know a good song to work out to? 'I Will Survive.

  Summer Glau

  Song, Workout, Latin

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• When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we're going to cover it in a way that's non-partisan, that's not left or right.

  Anderson Cooper

  Cnn, People, Events

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

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• The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn off genes in ways that disregulate cell growth and predispose for cancer. From this perspective, our genes are less the command-and-control masters of our cells and more like the keys of piano, with the environment as the hands of the pianist.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Cancer, Piano, Keys

  Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.19, Da Capo Press

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• As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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