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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again. (Ted Turner)
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. View quote
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There's an awful lot of superfluous news, the pervert of the day and someone that shot seven people at a fraternity party. Who needs it all? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I wanted to better inform the world. View quote
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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. View quote
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent. View quote
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone. View quote
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses. View quote
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day. (Ted Turner)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us. View quote
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. View quote
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I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough. View quote
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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions. View quote
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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. (Ted Turner)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel. View quote
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology. View quote
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