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" It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. "
Ted Turner
Government
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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 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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" 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 didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. "
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" I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years. "
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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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" I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news. "
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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 love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world. "
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" I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on. "
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" I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. "
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" I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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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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" My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. "
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