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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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Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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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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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 travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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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 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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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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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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'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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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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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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 world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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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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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'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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