Sylvia Earle Quotes

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

Sylvia Earle

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EndSharksWhalesYearsUpBeen

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

John Edgar Wideman

FamilyHomePeopleHouseMuch

Sometimes, you're just moved by people's journeys.

Melvyn Bragg

PeopleYouSometimesJustMoved

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

John Jakes

ChildrenPainLosingHellInnocence

By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

Matt Taibbi

FuturePeopleLanguagePoliticalOwn

We've been in front of really big audiences, and people have said there's a couple of hundred thousand people out there, but I've never really noticed.

Angus Young

PeopleSaidNeverOutBigBeen

One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.

Jeffrey Bell

ForgivenessCharacterFallPerson

Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.

Michael Caine

TimeMedicalYouKnowGetAlright

A lot of British actors will look at America as such a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of working actors of color. There's such a small amount of work that is actually produced in the first place.

Aml Ameen

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Someday, I'll be too old to run around the stage - though that won't hopefully happen for a long while yet.

Ronnie James Dio

LongRunOldStageHappenSomeday

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

Mary Astell

LoveBestThinkPleasureBeingMost

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

Michael Porter

PositiveGoodCrisisNeedJust

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

Joseph Crowley

SciencePoliticsOwnBehindActions

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