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" I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business. "
Ted Turner
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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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" I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. "
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" 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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" 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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" Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. "
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" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. "
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" 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. "
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" You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. "
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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 love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up. "
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" Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world. "
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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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" I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years. "
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" Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. "
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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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" You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. "
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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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Point
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" I wanted to better inform the world. "
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" Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. "
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" I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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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