Quotes by Ted Turner - Page 3

If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
Ted Turner / Businessman
New York
Doubt
Mind
No Doubt
Nuclear
World Trade
World Trade Center
World Mind New
Center
Crashes
Weapon
Nuclear Weapon
Plane
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I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Motivational
Life Lesson
People
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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 / Businessman
People
Poverty
World
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The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Five
Healthy
Media
People
Percent
Too Much
Control
People Media See
Too
Companies
Concentrated
Read
Few
Few People
Control People See
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We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Break
Giants
Huge
Media
Needs
Rules
Keep Will New
Companies
Set
Larger
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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 / Businessman
Zero
Boat
Courageous
Journalism
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Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Beats
Ifs
You Re Pretty
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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.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Jobs
Good Heart
Heart
Mind
Support
Better Job
Incredibly
Rally
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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.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Running
Finite
Greenhouse Gases
Infinite
Moving
Wind
Away
Run
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Gases
Greenhouse
Move
Solar
Whereas
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Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!
Ted Turner / Businessman
Cancer
Guy
Trying
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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.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Cnn
Decision
Mind
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When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Ocean
Hours
Racing
Verge
Collapsing
Slow
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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.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Candidates
Cnn
Decision
Doers
Endorsing
Make Up
Minds
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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 / Businessman
Crisis
Important
News
Position
Prestige
Network
News Business
The Most Important
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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 / Businessman
Arsenal
Nuclear
United States
Weapons
Would Be
Fired
Targets
Thousands
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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.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Inspirational
Motivational
Half
Honest
Race
Suicide
Myself Man World
Period
Gave
Richest
Richest Man
Shook
Signed
To Be Honest
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We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten -- not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Eight
People
Years
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When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?
Ted Turner / Businessman
August
Care
Nine
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Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Christian
Religious
Sea
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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 / Businessman
Inspiring
People
Perception
Race
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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.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Events
Play
World
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Men
Couple
Dollars
Expenditures
Half
Lost
Mean
Modest
Percent
Wealth
Away
Billion
Billion Dollars
Budget
Carefully
Watch
Rest
Gave
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Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Music
Peace
Common Humanity
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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.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Race
Thoughtful
World
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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.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Environment
Generous
Human Race
Race
Thoughtful
Love World See
Decently
Love World Living
Planet
Preserved
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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 / Businessman
Sad
Destroying
Elephants
Environment
Pandas
Rest Of Life
Tigers
Rest
Sad Thing
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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 / Businessman
Mean
Thinker
Thinking
Type
Wings
Adequately
Good Sometimes Know
Read
Wrong
Grab
Word
Sit
Speeches
Teleprompter
Wing
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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 / Businessman
Wisdom
Changed
Driven
Energy
Good Judgment
Hands
Judgment
Philosophy
Wisdom Good Experience
Wisdom Experience Good
Hand
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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.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Running
Attitude
Giving
Guy
Prepared
Program
Today
Winning
Run
Least
Worked
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John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Opportunity
Land
Responsibility
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The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Success
Fighting
White
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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 / Businessman
Coal
Industry
Needs
Party
Republican Party
Years
Closer
Democrats
Entrenched
Last Few Years
One Of The Things
Phase
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If people get all the sex they can handle, they're so happy and content they just sit around and smile. I mean, you never feel aggressive just after you've gotten laid, right? Lots of sex for everybody, that's a solution to the world's problems.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Mean
People
Sex
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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
Hard Times
Mistake
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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 / Businessman
Fields
Survival
Trying
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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.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Men
Names
Thinking
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If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Mass Destruction
Mean
Years
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I believe in a reasonable amount of "right to bear arms". But private citizens of the United States are not allowed to own nuclear weapons. I always wanted a nuclear weapon, if I could have gotten one. I'm every other kind of power, but I'm not a nuclear power.
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Funny
Clever
Smart
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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.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Feelings
Feet
Say Anything
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The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.
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Military
Powerful
Suicide
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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.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Believe
Council
Iran
Nuclear
Security Council
Thinking
Weapons
Attack
Believe I Believe Will
Everybody Else
Ours
Rid
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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.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Future
Money
Buying
Buying Things
Cnn
Humanity
Investment
Made
Television
Best Work Money
Best Future Work
Lot
Back
Could
Earned
Best Work Future
Spend
Large
Large Sums
Making
Put
Some
Satellite
Sums
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Jesus Christ would have been considered just another long-haired hippie freak if he hadn't been crucified. The folks weren't impressed with healing the sick, feeding the multitudes bread and fish or anything else, except maybe the walking on water. But when he got crucified, that gave him his big start.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Jesus
Healing
Hippie
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Once again, victims of disaster have turned to the UN and the international community in their time of need, .. The world needs the UN's leadership in these times, and the UN needs the world's support. We are communicating with the UN and its agencies to learn where UN Foundation funds may be of greatest assistance to the UN's relief efforts.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Communication
Agency
Support
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Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Communication
Cost
Crazy
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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
Serious
Trying
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I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years to be one of my proudest accomplishments and the best investment I've ever made. Those dollars have improved lives, saved species, fought disease, educated children, inspired change, challenged ideas and opened minds; at the time of my death, virtually all of my wealth will have gone to charity.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Children
Ideas
Years
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Looking back, if I had to live my life over, there are things I would do differently, but the one thing I would not change is my charitable giving. I'm particularly thankful for my father's advice to set goals so high that they can't possibly be achieved during a lifetime and to give help where help is needed most. That inspiration keeps me energized and eager to keep working hard every day on giving back and making the world a better place for generations to come.
Ted Turner / Businessman
Father
Giving
Inspiration
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