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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
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Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
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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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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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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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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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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I'm no genius. I'm not at all I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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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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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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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.
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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 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'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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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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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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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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