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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
I'm sure God, wherever he is, wants to see us get along with one another and love one another.
A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.
If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
There's a fine line between being colorful and being an asshole, and I hope I'm still just colorful.
It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.
I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
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.
The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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.
I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.
There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.
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.
I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.
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.
Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.
I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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.
The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!
Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.
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.
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.
I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.