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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'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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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 wanted to better inform the world.
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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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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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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 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 mind is just another muscle.
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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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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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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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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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I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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 fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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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 regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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