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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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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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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 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 regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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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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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 world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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I'm just a socialist at heart.
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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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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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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 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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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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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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I'm 68 and a half years old I grew up with newspapers I love newspapers I love the news business. I started CNN I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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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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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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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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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 panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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