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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
Ted Turner
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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
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Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
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More quotes by Ted Turner
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
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.
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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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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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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
CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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I'm just a socialist at heart.
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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
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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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
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
The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
Ted Turner
Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
Ted Turner
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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