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Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!

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Ted Turner
Age: 85
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.
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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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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 wanted to better inform the world.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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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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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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 mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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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 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 panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.
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I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.
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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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If I sold all my liabilities, I wouldn't own anything. My wife's a liability, my kids are liabilities, and I haven't sold them.
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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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Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.
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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 fantasize about everything being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.
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I like something with 'vice' in it.
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