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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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Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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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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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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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 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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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.
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