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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
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Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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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 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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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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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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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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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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.
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I love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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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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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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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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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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'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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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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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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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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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