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" I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on. "
Ted Turner
Gotta
Point
Move On
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" I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. "
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" When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology. "
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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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Experience
" The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about. "
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Television
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" There's nothing wrong with being fired. "
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Wrong
Being
" 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. "
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Love
Environment
World
" 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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Me
Financial
War
" If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. "
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Only
Had
Perfect
" 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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Say
Right
" 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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Own
Control
People
" 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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Snakes
Like
Giraffes
" I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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Dangerous
World
Think
" My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. "
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Son
Job
Entrepreneur
" I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. "
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Me
Adversity
Much
" I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. "
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Life
" 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. "
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Merger
Down
Had
" 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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Stay
" I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up. "
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Love
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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. "
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Win
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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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Stop
Safe
Believe
" 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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Trade
Mind
Doubt