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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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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
Philanthropist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I'm no genius. I'm not at all I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
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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 was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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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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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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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Christians are losers.
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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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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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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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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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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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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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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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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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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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