244 Quotes by Ted Turner

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    When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

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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.

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    CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.

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    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!

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    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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    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.

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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.

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    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.

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