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" I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast. "
Ted Turner
Fast
Go
Real
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" 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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" I see what keeps people young: work! "
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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 wanted to better inform the world. "
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" 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. "
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Life
Rest
" There's nothing wrong with being fired. "
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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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War
" 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. "
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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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Old
Years
" 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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Today
Win
Run
" You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. "
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You
Reach
" 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. "
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New
Will
" I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. "
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Marriages
Successful
More
" 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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Life
Nuclear Weapons
End
" I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years. "
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Buy
Been
Anything
" Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. "
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Television
Society
Started
" 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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Man
Wealth
Lost
" 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
" 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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More
Money
World
" 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 travel a lot. I'm on the move. "
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Travel
Move
Lot
" I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough. "
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Hearing
Miss
Really
" I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. "
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Sleep
Conditions
Both
" I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on. "
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Point
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" 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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" 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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" The mind is just another muscle. "
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Just
" 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
" 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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