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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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