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If you never quit, you're never beaten.

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
Robert Turner
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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Christians are losers.
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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 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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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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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 fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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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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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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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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