Ted Turner Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Ted Turner

  Moving, Energy, Dollars

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• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

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  Mean, Cnn, Cartoon

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

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• Sports is like a war without the killing.

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  Sports, War, Killing

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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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  Couple, Mean, Men

  "Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0" by Michelle Kung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

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  New York, Doubt, Mind

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• John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.

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  Responsibility, Opportunity, Land

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• I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

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  Climbing, Imagination, Mountain

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• I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

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  Years, Stores, Five

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• I was cable when cable wasn't cool.

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  Television, Cables

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

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• I'm sure God, wherever he is, wants to see us get along with one another and love one another.

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  And Love, Want, Love One Another

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• Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

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  Mean, Economy, Rating

  "Turner: Murdoch is a 'warmonger'", www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2003.

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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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  Media, Giants, Needs

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• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

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  Lonely, Strong Women, Loneliness

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• If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

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  Humble, Humility, Perfect

  Todd Wilkinson, Ted Turner (2013). “Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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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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  Ocean, Racing, Hours

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

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• I like something with 'vice' in it.

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  Vices, Internet, Free Speech

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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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  Cnn, Decision, Mind

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. May 28, 2012.

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• The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.

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  Suicide, Powerful, Military

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

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• I see what keeps people young: work!

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  People, Economy, Young

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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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  War, Fighting, Years

  "GQ Icon: Ted Turner". Interview with Wil S. Hylton, www.gq.com. September 20, 2007.

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• If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.

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  Life, Confidence, Thinking

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• When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?

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  August, Care, Nine

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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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  Years, Cnn, News

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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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  Important, News, Prestige

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. May 6, 2012.

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• Where's the upside in opening your mouth?

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  Mouths, Opening

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

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