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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
Robert Turner
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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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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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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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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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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 biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I wanted to better inform the world.
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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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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