Ted Turner Quotes - Page 3

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• The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.

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  Boredom, Sin, Worst

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• I love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

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  Thoughtful, Race, World

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• We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.

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  Children, People, Energy

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• Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

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  Music, Peace, Common Humanity

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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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  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.

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  Mean, Mass Destruction, Years

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• I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing.

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  Best Things

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• Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.

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  Important, Looks, Defeat

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.

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  Goal, Lifetime, Setting Goals

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

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  Adversity, Care

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• I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.

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  Motivational, Life Lesson, People

  "Ted Turner Speaks: Insights from the World's Greatest Maverick".

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• Looking back, if I had to live my life over, there are things I would do differently, but the one thing I would not change is my charitable giving. I'm particularly thankful for my father's advice to set goals so high that they can't possibly be achieved during a lifetime and to give help where help is needed most. That inspiration keeps me energized and eager to keep working hard every day on giving back and making the world a better place for generations to come.

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  Father, Inspiration, Giving

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• Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!

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  Cancer, Guy, Trying

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• I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

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  Inspirational, Feel Better, People

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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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  Struggle, Government, Cnn

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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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  Negative, Television, Our Society

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

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  Father, Thinking, Environmental

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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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  Media, People, Healthy

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• Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.

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  Crazy, Communication, Cost

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• We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten -- not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

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  Eight, Years, People

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• What the Bible says is really true-it's better to give than to receive.

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  Giving, Generosity, Stewardship

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• Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.

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  Men, Littles, Butlers

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• Once again, victims of disaster have turned to the UN and the international community in their time of need, .. The world needs the UN's leadership in these times, and the UN needs the world's support. We are communicating with the UN and its agencies to learn where UN Foundation funds may be of greatest assistance to the UN's relief efforts.

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  Communication, Agency, Support

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• I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

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  Mean, Thinking, Wings

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.

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  Stupid, Kids, Wife

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