Ted Turner Quotes
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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The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.
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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.
