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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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• A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.

  Christopher Paolini

  War, Fighting, Winning

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1968, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom. [...] Every bit as bad as liberals, "libertarian" political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry.

  Ilana Mercer

  Fighting, Gay, Blood

  "Beware of Liberals in Libertarian Drag". www.wnd.com. November 7, 2013.

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• And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

  Katie Couric

  Television, Literature, Able

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• Yes, I always say that were a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.

  Emmylou Harris

  Mean, Play, League

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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 mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch 'Come Dancing.' It was actually my granny who was the biggest fan; she loved the show, and she passed on her passion for it to me. I loved the dancing but also the frocks and the glamour.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Passion, Dancing, Fans

  "Strictly Come Dancing exclusive: Cherie Lunghi: 'I'm too old to be a sex symbol'". www.mirror.co.uk. October 25, 2008.

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• I think good-looking naked ladies turn on the majority of men.

  Steve Albini

  Men, Thinking, Majority

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. June 14, 2000.

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• If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way - of survival of the fittest.

  Ray Kroc

  Dog, Talking, Water

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• I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.

  Alice Cooper

  Cutting, Thinking, Cnn

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• Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sports, Football, Children

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• There's part of our brain that we shut off when we're in the studio. There's part of our brain that we turn on when we are out doing an interview or promoting something or waking up at six in the morning for hair and makeup.

  Taylor Swift

  Morning, Makeup, Hair

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.

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• I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

  Summer Sanders

  Dad, Swimming, Thinking

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• I know she's just trying to make things nice, so I do my part. Now, when I get up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, I turn on the light. I used to just go by sonar: just keep peeing 'til you hear water.

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Nice, Humor

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• According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.

  Ana Castillo

  Children, Animal, Men

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• 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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• 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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• 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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