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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

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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
Robert Edward Turner
Robert Turner
Life
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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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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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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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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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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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.
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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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.
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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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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!
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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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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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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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