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When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?
Ted Turner
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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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Robert Edward Turner III
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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 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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Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.
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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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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 mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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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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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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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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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
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I'm no genius. I'm not at all I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
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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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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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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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