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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: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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Robert Edward Turner III
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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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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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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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When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?
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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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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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