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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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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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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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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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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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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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Christians are losers.
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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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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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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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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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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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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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