Turn-on Quotes - Page 6

• I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.

  Jack Johnson

  Tvs, Turns, Embarassing

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• I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Thinking, Hands

  "Fahrenheit 451". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

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• That's what the news is: You turn on the news every night, whatever you watch, and you're expecting to see things that you didn't know happened. And that's not what it is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Night, Watches, News

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful books that were real turn-on's. At 12 or 13, books were such turn-ons.

  Judy Blume

  Real, Book, Parent

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You gotta turn with the times, or the times gonna turn on you.

  E-40

  Turns

  Source: licensed2ill.wordpress.com

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• In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.

  Howard Zinn

  Running, Long, Culture

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.10, Routledge

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• You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

  Sarah Dessen

  Relationship, Light, Complicated

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• There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down

  Clifford Geertz

  Turtles, Elephants, Stories

  René Girard, Clifford Geertz, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Stanford University. Committee on Modern Thought and Literature (1973*). “Myth and ritual in Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream”

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• Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

  Inga Muscio

  Life, Book, Culture

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• Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Heart, Mind

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.329, Anchor

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• I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Source, Type

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Night, Drug, Understanding

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• I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Blow, Car

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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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• I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

  Jerry Garcia

  Money, Thinking, Drug

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• I'm just really confident sexually, and I think that sort of oozes out of my pores. It's just there. It's something I don't have to turn on.

  Megan Fox

  Thinking, Turns, Sexually

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• 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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• Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

  Dave Barry

  Television, Violence, Sometimes

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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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