Ted Turner Quotes

I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

Ted Turner

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LoveWorldEnvironmentThoughtful

South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds.

John Edwards

BelieveCompromiseI BelieveMatter

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Steven Strogatz

TraditionYouCreateNewActWhich

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

Sun Tzu

MenVictoryEnemyKnowOpenOwn

Money is like manure: if you don't spread it around, nothing grows.

Tom Douglas

MoneyYouNothingSpreadGrowsLike

Speaker Boehner has said many times that the House of Representatives is the closest institution to the people, and he recognizes that by empowering the members to have direct input into the process.

Tom Graves

PeopleProcessHouseSaidHeDirect

Directors, writers, and actors are interested in making movies with me. Producers and movie studio people are not interested in me as they are in Kevin Costner or Tom Cruise. That's just the fact of the matter.

Michael O'Keefe

PeopleMeMoviesMatterCruiseJust

Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.

Christopher Shays

CommunityMedicalStoryLongOrange

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

Clifford Geertz

ResearchWritingLiteratureBeen

I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us.

Peter Capaldi

GreatParentsPeopleWorldGiftYou

We're fortunate to have football on the space station.

Scott Kelly

FootballSpaceFortunateStation

I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'

Nora Ephron

WomenPeopleSayingThoughtLaugh

Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.

Musiq Soulchild

TrustYourselfStay FocusedMindYou

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