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" 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. "
Ted Turner
Together
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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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" To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The mind is just another muscle. "
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" 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. "
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" I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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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 think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack. "
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" War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money. "
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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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" 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 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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Good
" 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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" If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. "
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" 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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" I wanted to better inform the world. "
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" 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. "
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" I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years. "
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" I see what keeps people young: work! "
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" 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. "
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" I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars. "
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" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. "
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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. "
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" 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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" If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. "
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