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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
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World
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are trying to save ourselves.
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I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Christians are losers.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.
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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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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.
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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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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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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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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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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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I'm just a socialist at heart.
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