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I'm just a socialist at heart.

Ted Turner

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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
Businessman
Entrepreneur
Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
Philanthropist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
Robert Edward Turner
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Socialist
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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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There are too many people, that's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff.
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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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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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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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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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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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.
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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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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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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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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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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 didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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