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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.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

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.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

I'd never choose to turn the clock back.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

They're still considered Olympic eligibles, so there's never an issue whether they're going to turn pro or not. When they get to that level, money is never an issue. They make so much money now.

When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.

Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.

If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

The bikini waxing, after we go there you can't turn back.

It was just a hobby. I didn't expect it to turn into a business.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

Everything I turn up to, I think I'm going to enjoy. I never look back, so I don't have regrets.

I'm really good at solitaire and I can turn my arms in full circles.

The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

I can barely turn on my computer!

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

There have been a few occurrences where people in restaurants have sent me a rasher of bacon, which I am not going to turn my nose up at. I never let them down.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.