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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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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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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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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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.
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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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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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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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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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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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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 travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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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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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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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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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