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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
Philanthropist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
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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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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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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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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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I'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.
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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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Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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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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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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