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" We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces. "

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Mind

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" My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. "

" There's nothing wrong with being fired. "

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

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" I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. "

" You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years. "

" I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up. "

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Love

Cartoon

" I wanted to better inform the world. "

" 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

" 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. "

" I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy. "

" I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast. "

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Fast

Real

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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Financial

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

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

" If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. "

" I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough. "

" If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "