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" I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. "
Ted Turner
Me
Adversity
Much
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" If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. "
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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. "
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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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" All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that. "
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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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" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. "
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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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