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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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Robert Edward Turner III
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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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'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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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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We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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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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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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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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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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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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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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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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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The mind is just another muscle.
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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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