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" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. "
Ted Turner
Winning
Better
Learned
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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 travel a lot. I'm on the move. "
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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. "
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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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" When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. "
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Took
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Network
" My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. "
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Job
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" I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. "
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Sleep
Conditions
Both
" If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. "
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Would
Only
Little
" Sports is like a war without the killing. "
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Like
" I see what keeps people young: work! "
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People
Young
Work
" I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up. "
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Love
Cartoon
Up
" I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out. "
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Win
Run
" If I had any humility I would be perfect. "
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Had
Would
Perfect
" 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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Time
Slow
Rest
" I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. "
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Marriages
Successful
More
" 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. "
Ted Turner
Stop
Safe
Believe
" You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. "
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Motivational
Never Quit
Quit
" 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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Rules
New
Will
" The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology. "
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Start
You
Worst
" 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
" 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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Infinite
Move
Run
" 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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Business
Up
Lose
" If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold. "
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You
News
Crisis
" 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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Snakes
Like
Giraffes
" I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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Dangerous
World
Think
" 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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War
Stop
Poverty
" If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. "
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Only
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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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Environment
Life
Rest
" War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money. "
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Financial
War