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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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I wanted to better inform the world.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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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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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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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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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'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 mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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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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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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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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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The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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