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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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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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Christians are losers.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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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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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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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've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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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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