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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. "
Ted Turner
Me
Financial
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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" You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. "
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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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" Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better. "
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" I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on. "
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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. "
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" I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years. "
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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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" You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. "
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" 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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" The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology. "
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" If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. "
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Forward
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" I wanted to better inform the world. "
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Inform
Wanted
" I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. "
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Conditions
Both
" 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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Say
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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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Adversity
Much
" I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement. "
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Think
Captain
Environmental
" Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. "
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Office
Men
Better
" 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
" Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. "
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Television
Society
Started
" 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 see what keeps people young: work! "
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People
Young
Work
" 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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Stop
Safe
Believe
" Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. "
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Keep
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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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Cell Phone
You
Be Happy
" All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it. "
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People
Said
Going
" 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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Good
You
Think
" I travel a lot. I'm on the move. "
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Travel
Move
Lot
" 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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You
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" I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast. "
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Fast
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Real