Ted Turner Quotes
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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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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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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.
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To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
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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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When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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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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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'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 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.
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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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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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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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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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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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.
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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.