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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
Businessman
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Environmentalist
Media Proprietor
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Edward Turner III
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John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.
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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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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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I'm 68 and a half years old I grew up with newspapers I love newspapers I love the news business. I started CNN I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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I'm just a socialist at heart.
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Nuclear war would really set back cable.
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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've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
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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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If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.
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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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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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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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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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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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