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" When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. "
Ted Turner
Took
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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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" I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world. "
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" I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "
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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. "
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" I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. "
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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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" 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. "
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Good
" I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast. "
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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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" If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York. "
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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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" Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite. "
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Run
" My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. "
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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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