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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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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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Cincinnati
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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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 chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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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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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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If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.
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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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