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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: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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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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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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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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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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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.
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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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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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I'm no genius. I'm not at all I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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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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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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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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