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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
Ted Turner
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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
Robert Edward Turner
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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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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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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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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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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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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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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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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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There are too many people, that's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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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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I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are trying to save ourselves.
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John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.
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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.
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CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.
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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.
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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.
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