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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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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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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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 didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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