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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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

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Sports is like a war without the killing.

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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

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Never Never Quit Quit Quitter

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

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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

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

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Acting Business Get Here

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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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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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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

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You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

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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.

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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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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

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It Is What It Is Marriages More Regret

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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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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

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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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

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Better Men Office Planet

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

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Better Biggest Biggest Thing Learned

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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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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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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

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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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Back Best Buying Cable

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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

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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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Business Crisis Everybody Had

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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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Apart Believe Better Country

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Better Inform Wanted World

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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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Business CNN Grew Half

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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.

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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.

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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.

Ted Turner

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Ted Turner

Sports is like a war without the killing.

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Ted Turner

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

Ted Turner

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

Ted Turner

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

Ted Turner

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Ted Turner

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

Ted Turner

Ted Turner

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.

Ted Turner

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

Ted Turner

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

Ted Turner

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

Ted Turner

Ted Turner

Ted Turner

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

Ted Turner

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 don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

Ted Turner

I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

Ted Turner

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

Ted Turner

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.

Ted Turner

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

Ted Turner

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

Ted Turner

I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

Ted Turner

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

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

Ted Turner

Ted Turner

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.

Ted Turner

If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

Ted Turner

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.

Ted Turner

Ted Turner

Ted Turner

I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

Ted Turner

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.

Ted Turner

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.

Ted Turner

Ted Turner

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.

Ted Turner

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.

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