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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. "
Ted Turner
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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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" If I had any humility I would be 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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" My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. "
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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 I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. "
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" I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough. "
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" I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast. "
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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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" There's nothing wrong with being fired. "
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" When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit. "
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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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" Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. "
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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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" 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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" I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. "
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" When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me. "
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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. "
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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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" Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite. "
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" You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. "
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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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" 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 travel a lot. I'm on the move. "
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