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" I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. "
Ted Turner
Sleep
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Both
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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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" 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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" I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. "
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Learned
" 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. "
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" I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. "
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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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Lost
" 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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" 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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Safe
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" Sports is like a war without the killing. "
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Like
" I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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World
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" I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough. "
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Hearing
Miss
Really
" 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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Win
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" The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology. "
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You
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" I travel a lot. I'm on the move. "
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Travel
Move
Lot
" The mind is just another muscle. "
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Muscle
Just
" 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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" When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day. "
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Money
World
" If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. "
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" I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it. "
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" If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. "
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Little
" 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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" 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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Got
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" I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast. "
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" 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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Control
People
" 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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Financial
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