Turns Quotes - Page 9

• Egypt has responded to hundreds of thousands of protesters by shutting down the Internet. Just a word of advice: If you want people to stay at home and do nothing, you should turn the Internet back on.

  Conan O'Brien

  Home, Egypt, People

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• Im not angry. I have never been angry in my entire life. The only thing that makes me angry is people videorecording me. Making me mad. NOW TURN IT OFF!

  Joe Jonas

  People, Mad, Make Me Angry

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• I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

  Ed O'Neill

  Thinking, Personality, May

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• I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.

  Selma Blair

  Might, Kind, Worried

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can never turn my back on a city that made me.

  Eminem

  Cities, Made, I Can

  Song: So Far, Album: The Marshall Mathers LP 2, 2013

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• I can look at a chick who's a little out of shape and if she turns me on, I won't hesitate to date her. If she's a good f**k she can weigh 150 pounds, I don't care.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Looks, Care, Shapes

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• I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

  Laura Dern

  Office, Noses, Boxes

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• I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, "Should I get face work?" And my mother and Anne Bancroft said to each other, "We are who we are, and we're not going to fall into that."

  Laura Dern

  Mother, Fall, Faces

  Interview with Naomi Watts, Interview Magazine, www.lynchnet.com. August 2004.

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• I was going to get an abortion the other day.
  I totally wanted an abortion.
  And it turns out I was just thirsty.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Humor, Abortion

  "Are you sitting uncomfortably?" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

  Portia de Rossi

  Love You, Healing, Helping

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Wall, Hard Work

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• I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Children, Thinking

  "Meet The Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. July 25, 2004.

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• Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

  Richard E. Grant

  Criticism, Kind, Film

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• Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave.

  Wilfrid Hyde-White

  Children, Believe, Bucks

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• Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.

  Sarah Vowell

  Real, School, Caring

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Aug 29, 2015

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• I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day. I love the way their brains work. Joe [her son] turns to me the other day and says, ‘One day, I will have a girlfriend. But I might have a boyfriend. If I’m gay.’ He’s 7! And I said, ‘You might have a girlfriend or a boyfriend, darling.’ And he said, ‘Which would you prefer?’ And I said, ‘My love, that would be entirely up to you, and it doesn’t make any difference to me.’ But that he knows! It’s a real privilege. Talk about the best education.

  Kate Winslet

  Girlfriend, Children, Real

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• In music, as you develop a theme or musical idea, there are many points at which directions must be decided, and at any time I was in the throes of debate with myself, harmonically or melodically, I would turn to Billy Strayhorn. We would talk, and then the whole world would come into focus. The steady hand of his good judgment pointed to the clear way that was fitting for us. He was not, as he was often referred to by many, my alter ego. Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine.

  Duke Ellington

  Eye, Hands, Ideas

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

  Albert Finney

  Mean, Mirrors, Clothes

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• I get on Twitter, one of my routines during the day, if I'm home is, I wake up, get a cup of coffee, turn on the Weather Channel and I'll look at what people are saying to me on Twitter on my phone.

  Blake Shelton

  Coffee, Home, Phones

  "Blake Shelton On Adam Levine: ‘I Want To Kiss Him So Bad’", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2012.

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• I'm pretty low-maintenance, but I like my time to myself, and once you have a child, you have to fight for it. I remember the first long bath I took [after Ptolemy's birth] was such a moment. Because a lot of the time you're in the shower, and if that baby cries, you've got to turn off the water and go!

  Gretchen Mol

  Baby, Children, Fighting

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• Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, 'why so serious?' He comes at me with the knife. 'Why so serious?!'. He sticks the blade in my mouth. 'Let's put a smile on that face!' And why so serious?

  Heath Ledger

  Father, Dark, Night

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• My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.

  Alan Thicke

  Sports, Fun, Believe

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• We've all got troubles. We all make mistakes. But let's not take a little river turn it into lake.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Mistake, Rivers, Lakes

  Song: Hey Everybody, Album: BareNaked, 2002

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• You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house

  Christine Baranski

  Choices, House, Television

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• At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

  Ethan Hawke

  Loss, Long, Humanity

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