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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
Ted Turner
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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
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Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
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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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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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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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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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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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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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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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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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Christians are losers.
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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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I fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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I'm 68 and a half years old I grew up with newspapers I love newspapers I love the news business. I started CNN I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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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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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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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