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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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Cincinnati
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Robert Edward Turner III
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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 don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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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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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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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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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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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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