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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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Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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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 regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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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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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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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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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
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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 biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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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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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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