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The mind is just another muscle.

Ted Turner

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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
Robert Edward Turner
Robert Turner
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.
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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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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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 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 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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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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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 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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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.
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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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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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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!
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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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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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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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