Quotes with about-turn

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Adele I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I got a wife and kids in Baltimore, jack
    I went out for a ride and I never went back.
    Like a river that don't know where it's flowing
    I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.
    The River (1980) Hungry Heart
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Burnie Burns I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bryan Robson I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Abdul Qadeer Khan I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936 - )
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  • Christina Rossetti I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Antonio Gramsci I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • Philip Roth I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Anna Held I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Bill Bryson I'd turn on the lights, but they're blown. I'd offer you a seat, but there isn't one. I'd offer you a drink from the minibar, but there doesn't appear to be one. It certainly is basic. Basic? It's a bloody cell!
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Adam Faith I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!.
    Adam Faith
    English teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist (1940 - 2003)
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  • Anthony Robbins I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Bea Arthur I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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