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Ted Turner
Age: 85
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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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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I'm just a socialist at heart.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.
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Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.
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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.
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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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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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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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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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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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