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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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Christians are losers.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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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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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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