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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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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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I'm 68 and a half years old I grew up with newspapers I love newspapers I love the news business. I started CNN I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
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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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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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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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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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I'm just a socialist at heart.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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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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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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