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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.
Ted Turner
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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
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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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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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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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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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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'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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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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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