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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
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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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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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 wanted to better inform the world.
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If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.
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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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I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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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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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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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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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 like something with 'vice' in it.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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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.
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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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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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