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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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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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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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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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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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The mind is just another muscle.
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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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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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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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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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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