Ted Turner Quotes
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any type of way. There's enough content to go around, and if we stop focusing on numbers and start focusing on the quality of the project, then I think everybody - viewers and artists alike - is going to be a lot happier.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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It's ironic - people used to want to suspend me and talk about how bad my behaviour was, but now they like it when I shout and scream.
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If the discussion centres on the essential principle of the E.U., the free movement of people and the ability to make decisions together, in that case, we don't want treaty change.
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Modern society is too quick to judge people on their appearances. There is not much you can do about it; it is the way they think; it is the way they are. But maybe this could teach them a lesson, or set an example.
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
