D. M. Turner Quotes

I believe I was ahead of my time.

I like to fish when it's not too hot.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

Jamaica is just one of those places that has so many stimulating factors in everyday existence. It definitely feeds me, my creativity and my soul in so many ways.

Sometimes two people could look at the same picture and see different images. Position determines perspective.

We are going to have to do some real soul searching as a country and try to bring America together, because it is divided.

Self-Checkout Line – The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment.

If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.

If you never quit, you're never beaten.

I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.

The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.

It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

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

I am attracted to myths.

Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.

It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.

Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.

Divorce is the biggest drain, outside of school fees, and nobody wins. People think it is always in the woman's favour, but it is not necessarily.

A lot of people live in a property that will one day be part of their pension, and that is true for me too. I have an investment I can sell with ease.

I have made six big home moves in my life and I have never lost money on one I have lived in.

The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

I have always liked clothes - throughout my life, my saving grace has been my own vanity.

There's no getting away from it: you have to clean.

If your fridge is full this Christmas, use nature's refrigerator - your car!

Those who earn money know best how to spend it.

I am now at the age where I can withdraw a 25 per cent tax-free lump sum. I do not put in a set amount because my earnings are a moveable feast.

Maybe, instead of paying so much in tax, the very rich could be incentivised to help their local community and young people who do not have a home.

We should be encouraging people to earn a lot of money. I do not know one wealthy person who does not spend money - and most of them employ other people.

I do not think we should tax people to a point where they are looking for tax loopholes and getting their money out of the country.

Why do we consider that just because people have more money, they do not deserve it? It is totally wrong. They deserve everything they have earned.

Unless you completely understand the investment world, do not mess around with it. It is not something I would go anywhere near.