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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
Ted Turner
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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
Robert Edward Turner
Robert Turner
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More quotes by Ted Turner
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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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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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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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.
Ted Turner
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 like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.
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I'm just a socialist at heart.
Ted Turner
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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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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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 U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
Ted Turner
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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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?
Ted Turner
The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
Ted Turner
I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
Ted Turner
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.
Ted Turner
