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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: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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Christians are losers.
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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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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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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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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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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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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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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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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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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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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