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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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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.
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I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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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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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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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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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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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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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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