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" Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. "
Ted Turner
Television
Society
Started
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" When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. "
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" I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast. "
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" I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. "
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" I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on. "
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" 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. "
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Nuclear Weapons
End
" 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. "
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Trade
Mind
Doubt
" We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces. "
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New
Will
" 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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Business
Up
Lose
" 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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Move
Going
Energy
" The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy. "
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Own
Control
People
" I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'. "
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Nothing
Put
Say
" 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. "
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Today
Win
Run
" I travel a lot. I'm on the move. "
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Travel
Move
Lot
" Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. "
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Office
Men
Better
" 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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Love
Environment
World
" I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. "
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Me
Adversity
Much
" You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. "
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Motivational
Never Quit
Quit
" I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up. "
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Love
Cartoon
Up
" 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. "
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Merger
Down
Had
" I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first. "
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Together
Think
Believe
" I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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Dangerous
World
Think
" 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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Good
Sports
Life
" I wanted to better inform the world. "
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Better
Inform
Wanted
" Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better. "
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You
Just Because
Mean
" All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it. "
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People
Said
Going
" 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. "
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Business
Old
Years
" The mind is just another muscle. "
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Another
Muscle
Just
" The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about. "
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Television
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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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Like
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