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I'm just a socialist at heart.

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
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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 was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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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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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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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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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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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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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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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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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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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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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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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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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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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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