Ted Turner Quotes
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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.
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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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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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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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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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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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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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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
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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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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
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We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
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The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.
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Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.
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I see what keeps people young: work!
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You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
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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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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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I wanted to better inform the world.