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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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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
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Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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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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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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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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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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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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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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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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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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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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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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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
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