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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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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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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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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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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 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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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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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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Christians are losers.
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We're too many people that's why we have global warming...on a voluntary basis, everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one child is it.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
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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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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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I'm just a socialist at heart.
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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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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 was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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