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" I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years. "
Ted Turner
Buy
Been
Anything
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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. "
Ted Turner
Good
Wisdom
Experience
" 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. "
Ted Turner
You
News
Crisis
" I wanted to better inform the world. "
Ted Turner
Better
Inform
Wanted
" My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. "
Ted Turner
Son
Job
Entrepreneur
" Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world. "
Ted Turner
Dangerous
World
Most
" 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. "
Ted Turner
Man
Wealth
Lost
" I travel a lot. I'm on the move. "
Ted Turner
Travel
Move
Lot
" 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. "
Ted Turner
Trade
Mind
Doubt
" 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. "
Ted Turner
Job
Mind
Good
" 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. "
Ted Turner
Environment
Life
Rest
" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. "
Ted Turner
Winning
Better
Learned
" To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless. "
Ted Turner
Cell Phone
You
Be Happy
" 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. "
Ted Turner
Merger
Down
Had
" Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. "
Ted Turner
Keep
Game
Life Is A
" 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. "
Ted Turner
Want
See
Like
" 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
Think
Believe
" 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. "
Ted Turner
Three
World
Race
" 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. "
Ted Turner
Rules
New
Will
" 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. "
Ted Turner
Republican
Say
Right
" 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. "
Ted Turner
Business
Old
Years
" I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news. "
Ted Turner
Years
Watch
Want
" If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. "
Ted Turner
Only
Had
Perfect
" 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. "
Ted Turner
Good
You
Think
" There's nothing wrong with being fired. "
Ted Turner
Fired
Wrong
Being
" The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that. "
Ted Turner
You
Got
Know
" You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. "
Ted Turner
Beyond
You
Reach
" I see what keeps people young: work! "
Ted Turner
People
Young
Work
" I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up. "
Ted Turner
Love
Cartoon
Up
" 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. "
Ted Turner
Today
Win
Run
" You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. "
Ted Turner
Motivational
Never Quit
Quit