"After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band."

-- Tina Turner

#Mother Quotes #Band Quotes #Older Sister Quotes

“I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.”
“We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.”
“Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.”
“It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.”
“Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist-but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.”

Source : "The Mechanism of Heredity". "Science", Vol. 27, No. 691, January 17, 1908.
“Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.”

Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.
“Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.”

Source : Ben Lerner (2014). “10:04”, p.69, Granta Books
“You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.”

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