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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. "

Ted Turner

Trade

Mind

Doubt

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" The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do. "

" The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology. "

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

" Sports is like a war without the killing. "

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Sports

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

" If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to better inform the world. "

" I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I see what keeps people young: work! "

" 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. "

" I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. "

" 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. "

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