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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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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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Cincinnati
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Robert Edward Turner III
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I'm just a socialist at heart.
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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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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 like something with 'vice' in it.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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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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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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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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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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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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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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