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" If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. "
Ted Turner
Yourself
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Dying
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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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" It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. "
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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 travel a lot. I'm on the move. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology. "
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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'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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" You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. "
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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'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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