Ted Turner Quotes

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Ted Turner

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 19, 1938

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

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

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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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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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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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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.

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

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I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

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When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

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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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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.

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

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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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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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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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