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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: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 19
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Cincinnati
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Robert Edward Turner III
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Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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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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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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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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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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Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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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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The mind is just another muscle.
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The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.
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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'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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Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.
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