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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. "

Ted Turner

Infinite

Move

Run

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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. "

" Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again. "

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Want

See

" 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. "

" Sports is like a war without the killing. "

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War

Sports

" I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. "

" 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. "

Ted Turner

Business

Lose

" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. "

" If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth. "

" If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. "

" The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone. "

" Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. "

" When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. "

" I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity. "

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

Ted Turner

Adversity

Much

" I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out. "

" If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do. "

" Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. "

" 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. "

" I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years. "

" I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. "

Ted Turner

Marriages

Successful

" 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! "

" When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me. "

" I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it. "

" I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast. "

Ted Turner

Fast

Real

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

Ted Turner

Money

World

" I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up. "

Ted Turner

Love

Cartoon