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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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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 travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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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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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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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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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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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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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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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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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I wanted to better inform the world.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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We're too many people that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.
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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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The mind is just another muscle.
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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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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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