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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
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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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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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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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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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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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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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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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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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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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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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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Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!
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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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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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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