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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. "
Ted Turner
Three
World
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" Sports is like a war without the killing. "
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" If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York. "
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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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" You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. "
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" 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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" 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 think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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" Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. "
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" I travel a lot. I'm on the move. "
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" I wanted to better inform the world. "
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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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" Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. "
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" I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. "
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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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" Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. "
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" If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. "
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Had
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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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" I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. "
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" All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it. "
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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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" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. "
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" I see what keeps people young: work! "
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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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" I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better. "
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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 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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" 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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" If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. "
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