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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
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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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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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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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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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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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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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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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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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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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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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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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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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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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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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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