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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! "
Ted Turner
You
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War
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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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Lost
" 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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" 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 wanted to better inform the world. "
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" I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years. "
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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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" Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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" All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it. "
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" I travel a lot. I'm on the move. "
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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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" I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. "
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" You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. "
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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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" 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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" If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. "
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" The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that. "
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Got
Know
" It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. "
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Government
Asking
Struggle
" 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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" 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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Trade
Mind
Doubt
" 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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Run
" I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough. "
Ted Turner
Hearing
Miss
Really
" When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. "
Ted Turner
Took
Actions
Network
" I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast. "
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Fast
Go
Real
" I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business. "
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Acting
Get
Here
" 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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" 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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Safe
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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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" 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 mind is just another muscle. "
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" Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. "
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