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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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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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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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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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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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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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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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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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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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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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