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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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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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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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Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.
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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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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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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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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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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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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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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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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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