Brian Skerry Quotes

I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change.

Brian Skerry

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I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.

Jesse Kellerman

FatherColdRememberFirstMark

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

Matt Lucas

PeopleStrongComedyOpinionsMean

I like to call the Department of Labor the Department of Opportunity, and that means opportunity for everyone - no matter whom you love.

Tom Perez

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As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.

Tom Cotton

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Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

David Talbot

MoneyGrowBudgetYearMouthNews

Obama's ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, means that he has to stay popular. What happens if he loses that popular mandate?

Chuck Todd

PersonalityPushHillAbilityEurope

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

Bruce Beresford

EnoughConnectingPointWonderful

In our marriage, the success of our athletic dreams comes before everything. 'Hey do you want to watch a movie?' 'No, I have a hard workout tomorrow.'

Ashton Eaton

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Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.

Atom Egoyan

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I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

Peter Doig

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My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.

Leslie Jones

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I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations. I can walk the streets there and point out my father's childhood home, the houses my grandfather built, the farm where my great-great-uncle worked after he emigrated from England in the 1880s.

Kim Edwards

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