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There's nothing wrong with being fired.

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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
Philanthropist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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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 was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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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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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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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'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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The mind is just another muscle.
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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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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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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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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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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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There are too many people, that's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff.
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