Ted Turner Quotes - Page 5

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• Where's the upside in opening your mouth?

  Ted Turner

  Mouths, Opening

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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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.

  Ted Turner

  Years, Cnn, News

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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.

  Ted Turner

  Important, News, Prestige

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. May 6, 2012.

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• The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

  Ted Turner

  Mistake, Numbers, Sailing

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• It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.

  Ted Turner

  Writing, Names, Long

  Ted Turner (2010). “Call Me Ted: The Autobiography of the Extraordinary Business Leader and Founder of CNN”, p.177, Hachette UK

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• The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.

  Ted Turner

  People, World, Poverty

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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.

  Ted Turner

  Money, War, Blood

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• Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.

  Ted Turner

  Failure, Men, Tears

  Ted Turner (2010). “Call Me Ted: The Autobiography of the Extraordinary Business Leader and Founder of CNN”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

  Ted Turner

  Men, Deeds Done, Eulogy

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• CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.

  Ted Turner

  Weed, Marijuana, Anchors

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• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  Ted Turner

  Business, Tragedy, Machines

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• I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.

  Ted Turner

  Sleep, Conditions

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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.

  Ted Turner

  Philosophy, Hands, Energy

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

  Ted Turner

  Responsibility, Cnn, Action

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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.

  Ted Turner

  Sports, People, News

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

  Ted Turner

  Regret, Successful, I Regret

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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.

  Ted Turner

  Party, Years, Needs

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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.

  Ted Turner

  United States, Would Be, Nuclear

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• I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

  Ted Turner

  Moving

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• I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

  Ted Turner

  Sports, War, News

  "Turner reflects on CNN at 25". edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.

  Ted Turner

  Zero, Courageous, Journalism

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• We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

  Ted Turner

  Inspiring, Race, People

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• I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more
  than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper
  sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are
  trying to save ourselves.

  Ted Turner

  Survival, Trying, Fields

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• There are too many people, that's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff.

  Ted Turner

  People, Stuff, Too Much

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• The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

  Ted Turner

  Life, World, Want

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