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Sports is like a war without the killing.

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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
Philanthropist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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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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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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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.
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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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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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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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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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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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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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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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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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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