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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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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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I'm no genius. I'm not at all I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
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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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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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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 see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are trying to save ourselves.
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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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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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 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 think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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