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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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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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Cincinnati
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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Christians are losers.
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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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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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Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.
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There are too many people, that's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff.
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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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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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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 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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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've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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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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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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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 wanted to better inform the world.
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