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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
Ted Turner
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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
Robert Edward Turner
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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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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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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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