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" I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world. "

Ted Turner

Love

Environment

World

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" I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. "

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Adversity

Much

" 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. "

" When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. "

" Sports is like a war without the killing. "

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War

Sports

" 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. "

" I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business. "

" 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. "

" I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up. "

Ted Turner

Love

Cartoon

" 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! "

" If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. "

" I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. "

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Marriages

Successful

" I travel a lot. I'm on the move. "

" 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. "

" You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. "

" The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that. "

" 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. "

" 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

" I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast. "

Ted Turner

Fast

Real

" 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. "

" All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it. "

" 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. "

" I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. "

" 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. "

" Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. "

" It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. "

" I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "

" I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news. "