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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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Cincinnati
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Robert Edward Turner III
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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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John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.
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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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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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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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 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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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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Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.
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Christians are losers.
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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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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 I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.
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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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