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" There's nothing wrong with being fired. "
Ted Turner
Fired
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" If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth. "
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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'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. "
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" When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. "
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" I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'. "
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" It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. "
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