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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
World
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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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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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'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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John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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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 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 don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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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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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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The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.
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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.
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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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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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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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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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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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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