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" At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent. "
Ted Turner
Merger
Down
Had
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" 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. "
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" When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit. "
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" I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out. "
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" Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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" Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. "
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" There's nothing wrong with being fired. "
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" Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million. "
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" I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news. "
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" I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses. "
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" My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. "
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Job
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" It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels. "
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" I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up. "
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" I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better. "
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" You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. "
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" Sports is like a war without the killing. "
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Like
" I wanted to better inform the world. "
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Better
Inform
Wanted
" If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold. "
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" I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. "
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Successful
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" I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world. "
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" If I had any humility I would be perfect. "
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Had
Would
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" The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years! "
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You
Start
War
" I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy. "
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Good
Wisdom
Experience
" I see what keeps people young: work! "
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People
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" Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite. "
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" It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. "
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" I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it. "
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" I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. "
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" I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years. "
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" I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. "
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