244 Quotes by Ted Turner


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    It’s been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.

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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.

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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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    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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    Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.

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    Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

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    Once you've weighed the possibilities, you have to take that final leap of faith.

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    But it's not their intentions that matter; it's their capabilities.

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