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" Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. "
Ted Turner
Office
Men
Better
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" I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. "
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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 mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on. "
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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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" 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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" I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. "
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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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" If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. "
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" There's nothing wrong with being fired. "
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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 think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack. "
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" Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. "
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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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Business
Old
Years
" 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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Cell Phone
You
Be Happy
" I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. "
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Sleep
Conditions
Both
" 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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" 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. "
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Say
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" I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. "
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Successful
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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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Man
Wealth
Lost
" I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast. "
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Fast
Go
Real
" I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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World
Think
" The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about. "
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Television
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" I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'. "
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Nothing
Put
Say
" 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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Going
Energy
" I see what keeps people young: work! "
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People
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" I wanted to better inform the world. "
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Inform
Wanted
" If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. "
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Forward
Dying
" 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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" The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy. "
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People