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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
Philanthropist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
Robert Turner
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Society
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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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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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If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out.
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