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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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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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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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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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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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Christians are losers.
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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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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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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 see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are trying to save ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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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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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.
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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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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.
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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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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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