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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
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Robert Edward Turner III
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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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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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I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are trying to save ourselves.
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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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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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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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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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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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The mind is just another muscle.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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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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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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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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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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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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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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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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