Ted Turner Quotes
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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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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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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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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
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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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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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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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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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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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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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
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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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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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Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.
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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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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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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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I see what keeps people young: work!
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
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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.