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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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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
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Cincinnati
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Robert Edward Turner III
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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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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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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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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 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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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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Christians are losers.
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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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