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