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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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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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Cincinnati
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The mind is just another muscle.
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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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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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Christians are losers.
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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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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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