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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
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Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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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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