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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
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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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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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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I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.
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Christians are losers.
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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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Basically we are chimpanzees with about two percent more intelligence and a little less hair.
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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 wanted to better inform the world.
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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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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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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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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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