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" If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. "
Ted Turner
Only
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Perfect
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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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" 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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" 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'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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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'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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Sports
Life
" Sports is like a war without the killing. "
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" 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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" Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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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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" 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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" I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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" My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. "
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" 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. "
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" I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. "
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" I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news. "
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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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" If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. "
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" The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that. "
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" 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. "
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" I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'. "
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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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