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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: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
Robert Turner
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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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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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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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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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