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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

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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
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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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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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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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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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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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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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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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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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John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.
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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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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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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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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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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 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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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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