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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. "

Ted Turner

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" Sports is like a war without the killing. "

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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. "

" All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it. "

" 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. "

" I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ted Turner

Business

Lose

" Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. "

" 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. "

" I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. "

" Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. "

" I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news. "

" The mind is just another muscle. "

" 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. "

" Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better. "

" It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. "

" To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless. "

" 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. "

" If I had any humility I would be perfect. "

" 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. "

" 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

Want

See

" I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses. "

Ted Turner

Snakes

Giraffes

" 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. "

" The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology. "

" 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. "

" I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on. "