Ted Turner Quotes
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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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
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In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.
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No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.
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Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.
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The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest survival. Working with these wonderful people has been incredibly valuable.
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Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.
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I knew as a kid that every decision I was going to be making, I would have full responsibility. So I knew I had to do what's right and protect myself, you know?
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And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.
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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.