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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: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
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Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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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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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 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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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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If you never quit, you're never beaten.
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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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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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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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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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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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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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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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The mind is just another muscle.
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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'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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I like something with 'vice' in 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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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