Turner Quotes - Page 2

• One thing I love about Josh Turner is his faith; that's why I looked up to him so much.

  Scotty McCreery

  Things I Love, Josh, One Thing

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• I'm a long way from Ike Turner.

  Rick James

  Long, Way, Long Way

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• Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.

  Andrew Himes

  Beautiful, Suicide, Hurt

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• Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

  Elton John

  Musical, Highways

  Song: Midnight Creeper Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player

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• Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his best when he unleashes his extraordinary powers of observation.

  Richard Tillinghast

  Men, Intellectual, Originality

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• The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Wise, War, Love Is

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• There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry.

  Ishmael Reed

  Book, Ghetto, Rocks

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I thought, "why don't we be innovative and create something nobody had ever done before?" It was a huge hit and we immediately did a sequel with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner and Maya Angelou.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Rocks, Done, Innovative

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this book I did a lot of fun research on robber barons like Rockefeller and Morgan. But the most helpful stuff came from studying royal families and mad emperors. The best book I read was probably A King’s Own Story, which is the memoir of Edward VIII. Also, anything about Ivan the Terrible or Ted Turner.

  Simon Rich

  Kings, Fun, Crazy

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like Josh Turner and then turn around and be a big fan of someone like Taylor Swift because, at the end of the day, it's all about those songs. I feel like country music has the best songwriting and the best songs of any genre.

  Charles Kelley

  Country, Song, Thinking

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• Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I am a massive Frank [Turner] fanboy.

  Timothy Omundson

  Follow Me, Frank, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like people like Tina Turner, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, and Stevie Nicks; you only hear that person in their voice, they sound like nobody else.

  Juliette Lewis

  Voice, People, Sound

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing like Tina Turner. It's inevitable.

  Winnie Holzman

  Girl, Islands, Long

  "‘Roadies’ EP Winnie Holzman on Working with Cameron Crowe, Experiencing Pearl Jam". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2016.

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• I had to pay an incredible amount to get insured on it and, after a couple of weeks of driving it around, I realised it wasn't quite my style. I'm not flash by any means but a bright red Ferrari is a definite head-turner and I hated that. It was also incredibly impractical, particularly when it came to finding space for a friend or for my tennis bag, so I decided to sell it after a few months.

  Andy Murray

  Couple, Mean, Space

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• President [John F.] Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs, said to Turner Catledge of The New York Times: I wish you had written more, I wish you had investigated more, because it might have saved the country of the cataclysm of the Bay of Pigs.

  Mark Shields

  Country, New York, Pigs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.

  Guy Maddin

  Book, Reading, Simple

  Source: thequietus.com

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• That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea of working with synthesizers but now I think they're fun, there are no restrictions. Not that I understand how they work.

  Vince Clarke

  Fun, Lying, Thinking

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• And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.

  Bryan Adams

  Heart, Long, Feelings

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• Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.

  Jane Fonda

  Differences, Benefits

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• I love the creative, whole-foods recipes in But I Could Never Go Vegan! Kristy Turner has heard all the excuses and has a response for each. It's true, no life is complete without the occasional calzone-but stuff 'em with Kristy's Buffalo Cauliflower and Cashew Blue Cheese and you can have calzones and be vegan too. Get ready for your taste buds to explode.

  Isa Chandra Moskowitz

  Blue, Creative, Taste Buds

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• Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

  Maurice Strong

  Leader, Environmental, Important

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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.

  Tina Turner

  Mother, Band, Older Sister

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2005.

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• My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is in our news.

  Lou Dobbs

  Watches, News, Substance

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty and it's very thorough, but it's not evocative, it's not dramatic, it doesn't do what Beethoven does - it doesn't shake you down to the roots of your soul, which Turner does. Constable is just very nice, basically. And moving on to personality, Constable was a very dull character.

  Mike Leigh

  Nice, Moving, Character

  "Mike Leigh, Unscripted". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 21, 2014.

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• I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.

  Miles Davis

  Years, Records, Wanted

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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