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I love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

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Ted Turner
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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Cincinnati
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Robert Edward Turner III
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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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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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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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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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