A Quote by Tina Turner

People hold on to what they like. They discard what they don't...

Tina Turner

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Discard Hold Like People

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Tina Turner
American - Musician
Born: November 26, 1939

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial; they abide with realities, they do not remain with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

Laozi

...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Big ideas don't make them selves known as big. They begin with the little, ridiculous ideas that most people would discard or reject. Every successful picture I've done has really been based on taking a very flimsy, fleeting little idea, grabbing hold of it, and taking it seriously.

Wolfgang Tillmans

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

Hilary Mantel

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa

Edward James Olmos

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

Edward James Olmos

My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

Freddie Mercury

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Richard Avedon

Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so much. The facts are exactly opposite-the reason we have so much is simply because we discard things so readily. We replace the old in return for something that will serve us better.

Alfred P. Sloan

You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.

Martin Walser

Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

Laozi

It's a misconception that an intelligent person can't act and I want people to discard such notions.

Padmapriya Janakiraman

I like to walk a lot and various ideas come in my mind. Many of them I discard.

Allan Loeb

I get this a lot: 'Oh, can you take a picture with my baby? Can you hold the baby?' I don't want to hold your baby! I'll hold my baby. I don't like holding someone else's baby. I'm serious! You never know what could happen. It's such an awkward position you're put in, and it's like, 'No, sorry.'