Quotes with about-turn

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  • Beau Brummel If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
    Beau Brummel
     
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  • Elizabeth Taylor If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Paul Auster If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics.
    Source: Moon Palace (2010) 111
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Bella Abzug If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
    Bella Abzug
    American lawyer and politician (1920 - 1998)
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  • Barbara Boxer If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; ''Hold on!''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Barbara McClintock If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Sir Walter Scott If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Jeanette Winterson If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.
    Source: The Passion (2007) 76
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Malcolm X If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Cameron Sinclair If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Boris Johnson In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
    Source: Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch, London SE1, 30 July 2010
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Patricia Neal In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
    Patricia Neal
    American actress (1926 - 2010)
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  • Wendell L. Willkie In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • Erica Jong In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Art Linkletter In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Bliss Carman Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Thomas à Kempis It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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