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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.

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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
Philanthropist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.
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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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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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Christians are losers.
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I'm no genius. I'm not at all I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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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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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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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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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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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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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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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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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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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