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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.
Ted Turner
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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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Robert Edward Turner III
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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 didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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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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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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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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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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Christians are losers.
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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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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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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CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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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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