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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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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward 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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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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 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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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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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.
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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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If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.
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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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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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John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.
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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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