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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. "
Ted Turner
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up. "
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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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" The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone. "
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" I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast. "
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" 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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Think
" 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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" Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. "
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Started
" You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. "
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Never Quit
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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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Environment
World
" 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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Life
Nuclear Weapons
End
" 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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Man
Wealth
Lost
" I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out. "
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Today
Win
Run
" 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. "
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Merger
Down
Had
" Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. "
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Office
Men
Better
" 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. "
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Business
Up
Lose
" 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. "
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Business
Old
Years
" I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business. "
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Acting
Get
Here
" 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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Own
Control
People
" 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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Job
Mind
Good
" When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me. "
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Decision
Own
Stay
" 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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Good
Wisdom
Experience
" I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on. "
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Gotta
Point
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" I see what keeps people young: work! "
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People
Young
Work
" The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that. "
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Got
Know
" If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. "
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Only
Had
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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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Three
World
Race
" 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
Right
" 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