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" I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. "
Ted Turner
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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 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'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 didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. "
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" 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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" To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless. "
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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 love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up. "
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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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" If I had any humility I would be perfect. "
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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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" I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years. "
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Anything
" There's nothing wrong with being fired. "
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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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Good
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Experience
" 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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" You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. "
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" All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it. "
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People
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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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Good
You
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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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Business
Old
Years
" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Mind
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" Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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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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" Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. "
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" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. "
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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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" 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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