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Sports is like a war without the killing.

Ted Turner

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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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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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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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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I'm just a socialist at heart.
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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.
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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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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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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.
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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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Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
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We're too many people that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.
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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.
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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?
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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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