Quotes with turn-tables

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  • Hal Borland No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.
    Hal Borland
    American author, journalist and naturalist
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  • Claud Cockburn Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.
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  • Bruce Lipton One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Caroline Glick One of the greatest problems for international journalists covering the Middle East is that people who serves as guides for journalists are often affiliated with Islamic terrorists seeking to turn for foreign visitors against Israel.
    Source: Reprinted in Live from NYs 92nd Street Y continues. Vail Daily. October 7, 2007.
    Caroline Glick
    American-born Israeli columnist, journalist and author
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  • Bill Rancic One of the things we've always tried to do is help others with our story. Whether it's with the infertility issues, whether it's with the breast cancer, we said we're gonna turn these negatives into positives. And if we can help others by sharing our story, then it's worth it.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Michael Cibenko One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
    Michael Cibenko
    American author
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  • Butch Trucks One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Kofi Annan Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Alberto Moravia Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
    Alberto Moravia
    Italian writer (ps. by Alberto Pincherle) (1907 - 1990)
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  • Bill Bixby Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • Ted Cook Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
    Ted Cook
     
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  • Bill Engvall People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Bill Keller People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Dan Rather Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
    Dan Rather
     
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  • Bill McKibben Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.
    Source: Saint Joan (1923)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Augustus William Hare Poverty breeds wealth; and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth, to form the mould, is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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