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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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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?
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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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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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I'm 68 and a half years old I grew up with newspapers I love newspapers I love the news business. I started CNN I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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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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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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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 word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.
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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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Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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