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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. "
Ted Turner
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" You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. "
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" I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" There's nothing wrong with being fired. "
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" If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth. "
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" I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses. "
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" I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years. "
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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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" Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better. "
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" The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years! "
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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 hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough. "
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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 wanted to better inform the world. "
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" The mind is just another muscle. "
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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 didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business. "
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" If I had any humility I would be perfect. "
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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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