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I wanted to better inform the world.

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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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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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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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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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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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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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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If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.
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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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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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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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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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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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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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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