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" We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done. "
Rupert Murdoch
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" Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars. "
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" ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News. "
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" What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill? "
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" Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely. "
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You
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" You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own. "
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Own
Turn
You
" From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want. "
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Giving
" Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism. "
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" I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other. "
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" A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone. "
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Happy
Newspaper
People
" I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good. "
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Change
I Am
" I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through. "
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Me
Best
Feel
" I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation. "
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Crazy
Children
Family
" The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. "
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Change
World
Will
" Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices. "
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Become
Proud
Australia
" I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives. "
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Young
Information
Know
" As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world. "
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Live
World
Creative
" Bury your mistakes. "
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Your
Mistakes
Bury
" Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. "
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Possible
Many
Broadcasting
" Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it. "
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Long
Climate Change
Change
" At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top. "
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Open
Top
Society
" When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. "
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Change
You
Proud
" People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate about it. In the most unlikely places, like down in Soho where I used to live, people would come up to me and thank me for it. People I didn't know from a bar of soap. People appreciate that at least they're being heard. It is much more watchable. "
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Me
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" In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child. "
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Child
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" Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet. "
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Change
Business
Past
" I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself. "
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Book
Say
" I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. "
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You
Proud
Change
" Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.' "
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Know
Look
News
" People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things. "
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Shopping
Young
Men
" Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. "
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Everywhere
Technology
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