Turn-on Quotes - Page 9

• People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

  David Bowie

  Mtv, People, Guy

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected. I usually try to start my day with a run before I even turn on my computer and clog my head with things to be done.

  Jo Dee Messina

  Running, Trying, Done

  "Jo Dee Messina: On Turning Life into Song". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Presidential, Personality

  Source: time.com

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• If you have things or are involved with things that turn on, it's going to have code. And there are so many people - let's pick on the historians - even as a historian, let's say I ended up going the road of being a historian, just knowing some basic scripts, any kind of automation would have made me a 10 times better historian because I wouldn't have to sit there changing every file name to "1234" and then "12345." It can have a transformative value.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Names, Knowing, People

  Source: thetartan.org

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• I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.

  Maya Angelou

  Morning, Television, Get Up

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• The worst thing in the world is to feel like people turn on the TV and say, oh god, it's that guy again. I'm trying to avoid that.

  Joe Buck

  People, Guy, Trying

  Source: thebiglead.com

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• Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

  Bennett Cerf

  Together, Television, Waitress

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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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• You never heard of any of the fighters [in heavyweight division]. It is very hard to watch. It upsets me to turn on my television set and never be able to look forward to a good fight in that weight class.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Class, Upset

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• If you look at the New York Times, it says X; if you look at the Washington Post, it says the same thing. And if you turn on any television newscast it's the same thing you already heard, that's research. And that's one of the ways it's done. Authority ends up being imputed simply because of volume. I mean, all of these different news organizations reporting the exact same thing.

  Rush Limbaugh

  New York, Mean, Organization

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I will be in Melbourne, Florida, and I just heard the crowds are massive that want to be there. I turn on the TV, open the newspapers, and I see stories of chaos, chaos, yet it is the exact opposite.

  Donald Trump

  Florida, Opposites, Stories

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Sometimes I just turn on the TV and I'm like, wait a minute, that guy [Donald Trump]? It's incredible that he did all those things and he still won. It's hard to process.

  George Saunders

  Guy, Waiting, Tvs

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

  Warren Buffett

  Light, Kitchen, Cockroaches

  Source: hurricanecapital.wordpress.com

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• Even under the best of circumstances men are hard creatures to trap. Women who flatter themselves into thinking they've trapped one are like people who believe they can get rid of the cockroaches in their kitchen. They're in for a big surprise late one night when they turn on the light.

  Harry Shearer

  Believe, Night, Men

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• People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Dog, People, Mad

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.106, A&C Black

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• After a while it sort of began to rain, which is to say that it was the kind of rain that never comes to a decision about whether it's actually raining or not. Driving in it, you would never have been certain whether or not to turn on your wipers.

  Neil Gaiman

  Rain, Decision, Driving

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

  Ethel Merman

  Book, Sleep, Pills

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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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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• There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty - hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun - and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light.

  Andreas Moritz

  Life, Fun, Light

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• Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.

  Fred Small

  Lying, Simple, Light

  "Environmental Songs". Interview with Steve Curwood, www.planetpatriot.net. April 18, 1997.

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• Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to incarnate experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Needs, Tvs

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• That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

  Morgan Freeman

  Directors, Want, Bigs

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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• We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.

  Bob Schieffer

  Jobs, People, News

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