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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: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
Philanthropist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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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 didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.
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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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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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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've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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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 travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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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 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 love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
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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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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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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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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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