Adm Stansfield Turner quote: "We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window."

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STANSFIELD TURNER

That is that the president feels he's got to have somebody to blame, and he's doing it indirectly by...
STANSFIELD TURNER

The field of combat was a long, narrow, green-baize covered table. The weapons were words.
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Despite the sharp jump in prices, August's data do not change the picture of a strong downward trend...
ED STANSFIELD

People were buying thinking they'd rent it out and make 15 or 20 percent appreciation, but now they'...
ED STANSFIELD

Every week there were stories in the paper about people making more on their property than going int...
ED STANSFIELD

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.
ED STANSFIELD

I'm glad the 'Indecent Proposal' thing came out the way it did, ... It would have thrown me right at...
LISA STANSFIELD

I'm proud to be a woman. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflect...
LISA STANSFIELD

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to d...
ADM WILLIAM HALSEY

[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
ADM JAMES STOCKDALE

No matter what profession you're in, there are boxes to check. For mariners, one has to be crossing ...
ADM. RICHARD GURNON

The challenges that I see at the high end are anti-submarine warfare. There are about 140 diesel sub...
ADM. GARY ROUGHEAD

For me, the best time of the year is the start of the second semester. They sit in the mess desk and...
ADM. RICHARD GURNON

They took a 40-degree roll.
ADM. RICHARD GURNON

It's a demonstration of our interest, our commitment to helping people in the region. It's going to ...
ADM. GARY ROUGHEAD

The ability to move these forces around more agilely, more rapidly, is the way that we will be opera...
ADM. GARY ROUGHEAD

We have not seen this level of aircraft carrier activity for a couple years. That number of aircraft...
ADM. GARY ROUGHEAD

In point of fact, one of the carriers that will be operating in the Pacific is an Atlantic Fleet car...
ADM. GARY ROUGHEAD

This summer we will see significant activity, including multiple carriers.
ADM. GARY ROUGHEAD

In order to do something you must be something.
ADM JAMES STOCKDALE

To be a great president, you have to have a war. All the great presidents have had their wars.
ADM JAMES CROWE

The Xerox machine is one of the biggest threats to national security ever devised.
ADM THOMAS MOORER

What you see in that document is the traditional powers exercised by the president at Massachusetts ...
ADM. RICHARD GURNON

This is an era of violent peace.
ADM JAMES D. WATKINS

I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you ...
TED TURNER

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees ...
TED TURNER

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need ...
TED TURNER

I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamander...
TED TURNER

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that c...
TED TURNER

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
TED TURNER

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
TED TURNER

I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race prese...
TED TURNER

I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart...
TED TURNER

When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
TED TURNER

It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were go...
TED TURNER

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
TED TURNER

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with...
TED TURNER

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and go...
TED TURNER

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to se...
TED TURNER

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a...
TED TURNER

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know t...
TED TURNER

The mind is just another muscle.
TED TURNER

Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as w...
TED TURNER

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
TED TURNER

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
TED TURNER

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, o...
IKE TURNER

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Missis...
IKE TURNER

I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.
IKE TURNER

I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the ...
IKE TURNER

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is...
IKE TURNER

Spector is a good guy, but he's a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he's unpredicta...
IKE TURNER

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

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
IKE TURNER

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very g...
IKE TURNER

I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
IKE TURNER

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts ...
IKE TURNER

Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always ...
IKE TURNER

I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, ...
IKE TURNER

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't k...
IKE TURNER

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's ...
IKE TURNER

My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's ...
JOSH TURNER

I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been...
JOSH TURNER

My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and ...
JOSH TURNER

It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.
JOSH TURNER

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.
JOSH TURNER

To think that my heart and my words and my music saved somebody's life, it takes a while to just...
JOSH TURNER

I've never had the patience of a teacher.
JOSH TURNER

Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look arou...
JOSH TURNER

When I first started out in this business, it was easy because nobody wanted anything from me. But n...
JOSH TURNER

In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't wan...
JOSH TURNER

The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it ...
JOSH TURNER

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. ...
JOSH TURNER

Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing every...
JOSH TURNER

What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by ...
JOSH TURNER

I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I...
JOSH TURNER

I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by...
JOSH TURNER

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wron...
JOSH TURNER

My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota F...
JOSH TURNER

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no...
JOSH TURNER

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules...
JOSH TURNER

I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark tim...
JOSH TURNER

You have to take time and make time for each other. My current single 'Time Is Love' gives a...
JOSH TURNER

I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I...
JOSH TURNER

I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
JOSH TURNER

'If you believe, you can achieve' - that's my motto!
SOPHIE TURNER

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you'r...
TED TURNER

You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing...
GLENN TURNER

The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
LANA TURNER

I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
LANA TURNER

Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
LANA TURNER

We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. Th...
LANA TURNER

That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdress...
LANA TURNER

I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
LANA TURNER

I've always loved a challenge.
LANA TURNER

Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
LANA TURNER

Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and ...
LANA TURNER

It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
LANA TURNER

I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetw...
LANA TURNER

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
LANA TURNER

My life has been a series of emergencies.
LANA TURNER

I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.
LANA TURNER

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when...
LANA TURNER

Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off mar...
LANA TURNER

I started off wanting one husband and seven children, but it ended up the other way around.
LANA TURNER

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.
LANA TURNER

Since my life has been wayward and impulsive, always a search for something that is not there, and t...
LANA TURNER

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
LANA TURNER

Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind maste...
NAT TURNER

After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile ...
NAT TURNER

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would pre...
NAT TURNER

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.
TINA TURNER

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
TED TURNER

The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
ALEX TURNER

They can blame me if they want. Personally, I don't care ... I accepted the mission from the board a...
ALAN TURNER

The days when staff were taking two-hour lunches and going to the putting green have virtually ended...
ALAN TURNER

an astonishing array of bad workplace habits.
ALAN TURNER

I've been working with boards for over 20 years and they make decisions for many reasons,
ALAN TURNER

I was very disappointed with the board's performance during the election months, ... I felt that the...
ALAN TURNER

It's been very demanding, very tiring, very stressful, but in the end extremely rewarding,
ALAN TURNER

One in particular appeals to me and I wanted to be free to accept that if the offer comes through,
ALAN TURNER

I gave them 90 days notice 90 days ago, so the board was aware of my intentions to move on,
ALAN TURNER

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determi...
DALE TURNER

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and fai...
DALE TURNER

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wh...
DALE TURNER

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors,...
JOHN TURNER

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
TINA TURNER

Storage is important. Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that...
ANTHEA TURNER

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
TED TURNER

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right...
TED TURNER

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
TED TURNER

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . w...
TINA TURNER

I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and ...
KATHLEEN TURNER

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities wi...
DALE TURNER

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities wit...
DALE TURNER

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and ...
ED TURNER

Physical strength in a woman -- that's what I am.
TINA TURNER

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
TED TURNER

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To...
DALE TURNER

I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the N...
NAT TURNER

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the ...
DALE TURNER

To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy...
NAT TURNER

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
TINA TURNER

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.
ALEX TURNER

You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what...
JOSH TURNER

I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darken...
NAT TURNER

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
TED TURNER

I met my wife in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a g...
GLENN TURNER

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to ...
TED TURNER

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. ...
IKE TURNER

I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is...
TINA TURNER

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.
TINA TURNER

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
TINA TURNER

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.
TINA TURNER

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
TINA TURNER

I always had long legs. When I was young, I used to think, 'Why do I look like a little pony?...
TINA TURNER

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from ...
TINA TURNER

Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.
TINA TURNER

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
TINA TURNER

But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the rig...
TINA TURNER

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking abo...
TINA TURNER

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.
TINA TURNER

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, th...
TINA TURNER

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.
TINA TURNER

I am attracted to myths.
TINA TURNER

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside o...
TINA TURNER

As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you ca...
TINA TURNER

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an accepta...
TINA TURNER

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But t...
TINA TURNER

Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
TINA TURNER

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in somethi...
TINA TURNER

Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say yo...
TINA TURNER

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.
TINA TURNER

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... ...
TINA TURNER

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.
SOPHIE TURNER

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
LANA TURNER

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who ...
LANA TURNER

My time is now.
JOHN TURNER

Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the...
JOSH TURNER

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
ANTHEA TURNER

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I d...
TINA TURNER

On 'Game of Thrones,' all of my closest friends are 30 upwards, which is quite strange.
SOPHIE TURNER

There's a moment when you realise all your worst fears have come true. When the fat girl stuffing he...
JENNIFER TURNER

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
GLENN TURNER

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything ...
KATHLEEN TURNER

(Rachel) has shown great ability at a young age to work in all forms of art . . .and media. I look f...
ANN TURNER

Testing is not a cure-all. But because it is believed that migraine is triggered by an accumulation ...
ANN TURNER

Triggers vary from person to person, so there is really no point in cutting out a food unless you kn...
ANN TURNER

There's no difference because we happen to be a nonprofit when you're running a store. We have to co...
ANN TURNER

The shop contributed funds to our programs with varying degrees of success, until the last four year...
ANN TURNER

This piece of work gives some scientific validity to what people are doing already. Previously, peop...
ANN TURNER

I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. Yo...
ALEX TURNER

Very rarely, since I've been at Connecticut, have we had somebody that we expected to be good just g...
BARBARA TURNER

I would say (it's a must-win). You don't ever want to put a game in that situation, but realisticall...
BARBARA TURNER

I think this whole road trip has pretty much built character on our team. It?s brought us close toge...
BARBARA TURNER

I don't know if we would have been able to do that. We probably would have panicked a little bit, pl...
BARBARA TURNER

I feel light-years better than I did last year coming into the season, ... I think they figured ever...
BARBARA TURNER

It?s all about us having that focus and being together even when we hit adversity. We just have to k...
BARBARA TURNER

We knew that they were a good team, I don?t think we underestimated them at all. It was just a fight...
BARBARA TURNER

We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.

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