Ted Turner Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
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“To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.”
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“You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”
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“My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.”
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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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“I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.”
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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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“All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.”
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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.”
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“The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.”
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“The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.”
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“If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.”
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“The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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'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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“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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“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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“I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.”
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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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“I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.”
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“I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.”
-- Ted Turner
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