Top 148 Quotes & Sayings by Ted Turner - Page 3

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.

There's a fine line between being colorful and being an asshole, and I hope I'm still just colorful.

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.

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.

I was cable when cable wasn't cool.

Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.

The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.

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.

There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

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

Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

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.

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

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.

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.

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

Where's the upside in opening your mouth?

I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are trying to save ourselves.

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.

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?

Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.

The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.