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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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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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Robert Edward Turner III
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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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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We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.
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CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.
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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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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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Christians are losers.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?
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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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Be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you'll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low, and now I'm having a hard time coming up with new ones.
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I'm no genius. I'm not at all I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.
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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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The mind is just another muscle.
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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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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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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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