Top 100 Quotes About Ted Turner
#1. Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.
Jane Fonda
#2. Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.
Frank Gaffney
#3. In our case, one of my earliest experiences working in the company was being asked to be on Ted Turner's board, and I saw that the value creation from owning networks was stunning - new channels, international opportunities, synergy, many things that Turner Broadcasting built for decades.
Brian L. Roberts
#4. Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
Joseph Barbera
#5. Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work.
Louis Bacon
#6. We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
Christiane Amanpour
#7. Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.
Maurice Strong
#8. That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner.
Douglas Wood
#9. The media tycoon Ted Turner told a newspaper reporter in 2010 that other countries should follow China's lead in instituting a one-child policy to reduce global population over time.
Matt Ridley
#11. I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs.
Maurice Strong
#12. That Ted Turner is a genius ... He has taken what used to be a carnival side show and turned it into a gold mine. Yes - wrestling has become prime time for the masses. He's making these giant men into millionares with movie star status.
Samantha Barks
#13. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke
#14. It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.
Ted Turner
#15. I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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#16. I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.
Ted Turner
#17. 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.
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#18. The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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#19. If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.
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#20. 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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#21. Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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#22. 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.
Ted Turner
#23. 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.
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#24. Sports is like a war without the killing.
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#25. I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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#26. I like something with 'vice' in it.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. I see what keeps people young: work!
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#30. 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.
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#31. It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.
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#32. 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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#33. Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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#34. I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
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#35. 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.
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#36. If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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#37. To succeed you have to be innovative.
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#38. I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
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#39. 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.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.
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#43. If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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#44. Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
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#46. The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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#47. I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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#48. I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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#49. 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.
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#50. When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
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#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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#56. I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.
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#57. There's really five companies who control 90% of what we read, see, and hear.
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#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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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#61. Make a way, find a way or get out of the way.
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#62. 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.
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#63. Where's the upside in opening your mouth?
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#64. 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.
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#65. Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.
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#66. 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
#67. 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.
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#68. The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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#69. 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.
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#70. My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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#71. To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
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#72. 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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#73. It was now the fall of 1956, and nine years after entering Georgia Military Academy as a scrawny "Yankee" from Ohio, I was now considered a "southerner," enrolling at one of the North's most elite institutions.
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#75. 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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#76. 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.
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#77. I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
Ted Turner
#78. Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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#79. I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.
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#80. The happiest people are those who are contributing to society.
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#81. 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.
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#82. Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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#83. The worst sin, the ultimate sin for me, in anything, is to be bored.
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#84. 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.
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#85. All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
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#86. I was cable when cable wasn't cool.
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#87. The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
Ted Turner
#88. 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.
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#89. Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
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#90. 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
#91. If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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#92. 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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#93. 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.
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#94. CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.
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#95. Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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#96. I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
Ted Turner
#97. 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!
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#98. There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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#99. 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.
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#100. Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.
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