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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: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
Philanthropist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.
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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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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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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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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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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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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I'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.
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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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I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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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 world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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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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