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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.

- Ted Turner

Percent, Had, Merged, Diluted

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

- Ted Turner

Run, Public Office, Planet, Disqualified

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

- Ted Turner

Happy, Be Happy, Need, Phone

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

Away, Move, Greenhouse Gases, Finite

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.

- Ted Turner

Business, Lose, Like, Eighth

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

- Ted Turner

Some, United, United States, Dumbest

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

Rest, Will, Going, Elephants

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

Rest, Young, Hours, Collapsing

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

Good, Got, Obama, Good Heart

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

Away, Couple, Half, Budget

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!

- Ted Turner

Like, Still, Iraqis, Iranians

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

- Ted Turner

Nickel, Ever, CNN, Financing

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

- Ted Turner

World, Dangerous, Most, None

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

- Ted Turner

Reach, Always, Set, Goals

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, Could, One Country, Goals

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

- Ted Turner

Just Because, Better, Bigger, Ratings

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

Sometimes, Through, Very, Teleprompter

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

New, Big, Larger, Giants

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

Over, Away, Period, Richest

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

Control, Own, Read, Concentrated

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

Love, Living, Everybody, Equitable

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

- Ted Turner

Responsibility, Took, CNN, Publisher

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.

- Ted Turner

Financial, Want, Been, Standpoint

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

Mind, New, Plane, Crashes

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

- Ted Turner

Business, Son, Now, Entrepreneur

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

Experience, Other, Had, Changed

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

Fired, Other, United States, Weapons

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

Everybody, I Think, Least, Weapons

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.

- Ted Turner

Sports, News, Fortune, Diverse

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

Been, One Of The Things, Entrenched

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