Ted Turner Quotes - Page 6

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• I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

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  Business, Acting, Economy

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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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  Years, Watches, News

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• Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.

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  People, Trying, Serious

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• I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more
  than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper
  sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are
  trying to save ourselves.

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  Survival, Trying, Fields

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• Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.

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  Zero, Courageous, Journalism

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• We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

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  Inspiring, Race, People

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• Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

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  People, Cannibal, Died

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• I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

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  Real, Broke, Ifs

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• I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

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  Sports, War, News

  "Turner reflects on CNN at 25". edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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• I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

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  Moving

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• If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

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  United States, Would Be, Nuclear

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• I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.

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  Believe, Thinking, Iran

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• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

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  Buying Things, Cnn, Humanity

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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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  Running, Moving, Wind

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• Nuclear war would really set back cable.

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  Funny, War, Nuclear

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