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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.

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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
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Environmentalist
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Cincinnati
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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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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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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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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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 wanted to better inform the world.
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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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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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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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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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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.
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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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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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