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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. "
Ted Turner
Move
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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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" 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'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 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 didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. "
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" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. "
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