Ted Turner Quotes - Page 6

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

  Ted Turner

  Real, Broke, Ifs

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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.

  Ted Turner

  Country, War, Goal

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• I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

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  Moving

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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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  Jobs, Heart, Support

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

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  Business, Acting, Economy

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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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  Years, Watches, News

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• I wanted to better inform the world.

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  World, Wanted

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

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

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  Missing, Hearing, Tough

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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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  Fighting, Use, Want

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

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• 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.

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  Running, Moving, Wind

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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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  Buying Things, Cnn, Humanity

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• I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.

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  Believe, Thinking, Iran

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• The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.

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  People, Trying, Serious

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• Nuclear war would really set back cable.

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  Funny, War, Nuclear

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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.

  Ted Turner

  Elephants, Rest Of Life, Pandas

  "Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0" by Michelle Kung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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