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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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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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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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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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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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We're too many people that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.
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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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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 don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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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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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?
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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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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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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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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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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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