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" 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. "

Ted Turner

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

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

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

" Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. "

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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 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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" The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's 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. "

" The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about. "

" I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it. "

" I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. "