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Ike Turner Quotes

I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: November 5, 1931 - December 12, 2007

Topics

Life My Life Fast Train Never Seen

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

Joy Band Starting Meat Own Made

Every industry has standards. For example, the motion picture camera, there are 2 or 3 film formats with a number of brackets and number of speed, a shooting speed that is standard. If we didn't have that, then some motion pictures will play back too slowly, and people would talk very slowly, and it will be bizarre.

Jeffrey Zeldman

People Picture Speed Camera Play

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

Andrew Sullivan

Marriage Politics Early Gay My Own

To be a series regular for two seasons taught me so much about what it takes to be on a TV schedule and work those kind of hours and just work in front of a camera in general.

Work Me Camera Seasons Kind Two

Sometimes when you date people, you end up breaking up, and if teammates are mature enough to deal with that, then it's okay. I never want to bring any undue drama to the team.

People Team End Enough You Drama

I don't cry about anything.

Cry Anything About

If you have market power like Nike, you can set terms that are much tougher because athletes value the endorsement of Nike - it means as much to them as it does to the company.

Power Value You Company Nike Market

You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day, and the water in the Alexandrian harbor is not really something you want to come into contact with.

Water Day You Want Dive See

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Vision Excellence Company Able Dandy

Japan is the only country I have visited that I want to go to again. I just feel the Japanese have such good taste and dedication to craftsmanship in everything they do. They also merge the traditional and modern aspects of their culture so well.

Good Culture Dedication Feel Country

It cracks me up to see these ads for TV - for Depends or for glue for your dentures. The people in them look 55 with a hint of gray. Where are the people who are falling apart? We don't see that.

People Me Look Gray Glue See

I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me.

Michael Lee-Chin

Confidence I Am Me Growing Up Born

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