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If you never quit, you're never beaten.

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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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The mind is just another muscle.
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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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We're too many people that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.
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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 sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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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'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.
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We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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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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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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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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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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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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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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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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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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