Ted Turner Quotes - Page 2

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• It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.

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  Stupid, Long, Caught

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• I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.

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  Bullshit, Limitless

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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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  Success, Jobs, Business

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• The mind is just another muscle.

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  Inspirational, Mind, Muscles

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• There's a fine line between being colorful and being an asshole, and I hope I'm still just colorful.

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  Lines, Fine, Stills

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

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  Happiness, Tombstone, Ems

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• Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.

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  Success, Mistake, Hard Times

  Todd Wilkinson, Ted Turner (2013). “Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet”, p.72, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

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  Smart, Dumb, Rich

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• Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

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  Men, World, Dangerous Man

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• We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.

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  Play, Events, World

  Todd Wilkinson, Ted Turner (2013). “Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.

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  Important, Looks, Defeat

  Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

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• We're too many people; that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.

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  Children, People, Energy

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• The happiest people are those who are contributing to society.

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  People, Contributing

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• I'm just a socialist at heart.

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  Heart, Politics, Socialist

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• I'm a human being, just like everybody else. I'm up some days and down others. Some days, I just refuse comment. If I'm feeling a little down, I won't say anything. But if I'm really up, I'll let it all hang out. I do have a slight propensity to put my foot in my mouth.

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  Feet, Feelings, Say Anything

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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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  Ideas, People, Needs

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• If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.

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  Panic, Way, Ifs

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• I'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.

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  Men, Thinking, Names

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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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  Life And Death, Life Is Like, Want

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• The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.

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  Selfish, Giving, Charity

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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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  Moving, Dying, Faster

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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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  Happiness, Airplane, Phones

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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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  Running, Attitude, Winning

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• Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

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  Two, Hair, Religion

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• If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.

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  Jobs, If There Is A God, Earth

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