Turn-on Quotes - Page 3

• Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.

  Julius Erving

  Makeup, Nba, Turns

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• I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Sick, Television, Honest

  "Back on trail, Elizabeth Edwards pushes stem-cell funding", www.cnn.com. March 26, 2007.

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• Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Men, Mind, Needs

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• You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Up To You, Tvs, Internet

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.188, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Real, Mean

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• I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Guitar, Jazz, Turns

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• Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

  Joan Baez

  Ipods, Opera, Littles

  "How Sweet The Sound: An Interview With Joan Baez". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

  John Lennon

  Hope, Helping, Springsteen

  "John Lennon's Final Rolling Stone Interview Published On Anniversary Of Death" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. December 8, 2010.

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• I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don't. I don't learn anything from it anymore.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Weekend, Nuclear, News

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• I never open the newspaper, never. I never go to a website; I never turn on the T.V. hoping to find something I can attack. It isn't what I do. I defend.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Newspapers, Website, Turns

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• I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.

  J. K. Rowling

  Morning, Eye, Moon

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• If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.

  Joe Strummer

  Nice, Cat, Kitchen

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• You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

  Bill Watterson

  Creativity, Procrastination, Panic

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• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  Florence Welch

  Sleep, Dark, Light

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• Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.

  Unknown

  Hate, Power, Sisterhood

  "Who Won’t Be Voting for Trump" by Eliot Weinberger, London Review of Books, Volume 38, No.20, pp. 3-6, www.lrb.co.uk. October 20, 2016.

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• I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Stress, Car

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• That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Men, Ideas, Dimes

  "We Are Alive" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

  Suze Orman

  Dark, Light, People

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• I can barely turn on my computer!

  Jack Nicklaus

  Computer, Turns, I Can

  "Arizona 20 Years: Jack Nicklaus". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

  Alan Moore

  People, Wave, Desperate

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• What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

  Dennis Miller

  Business, War, Taken

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• The launch of Google+ apps sends a powerful signal - the personalized web has begun. What this means is that the way information is structured and accessed will turn on the individual, or rather their personal profile which is a composite of all the data collected on the basis of what they have searched for and shared.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Powerful, Mean, Data

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• I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.

  Courtney Love

  Radio, Inspired, Turns

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• In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

  Art Linkletter

  Song, Light, Secret

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• It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

  Corazon Aquino

  Peace, Light, Cells

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