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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.

Ted Turner

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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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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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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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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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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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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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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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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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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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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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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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Christians are losers.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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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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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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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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I'm just a socialist at heart.
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