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Sylvia Earle Quotes

Health to the ocean means health for us.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 30, 1935

Topics

Health Ocean Us Means

I practiced law for 10 years, and I always admired the lawyers who were not afraid to take unpopular cases. And I never had the guts to do that. I was playing it safe. I was trying to make a living. And I just never volunteered for a really tough case, and there were some of them I should've taken. And I admired the lawyers who did.

Law Tough Trying Lawyers Living

Selma helped make it possible for hundreds and thousands of people in the South to become registered voters and encouraged people all across America to become participants in a democratic process.

People Process America Possible Make

I suspect that most retailers are so busy buying goods, taking care of markdowns, and so on that they have too little time to give thought to creativity.

Time Creativity Busy Thought Care

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

Car Parents Think Care Write Hold

When a parent comes into school waving a book and saying, 'Take this book away. I don't like this book.' I won't say in all cases, but in many cases, that will not happen anymore. It has to go through a proper review board. The complaining parent will have to fill out a complaint, you know, put it in writing.

School Writing Book Saying Parent

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.

Christina Applegate

Mother Struggle Child Me Growing Up

I'm very protective of how much I let people see.

Christina Aguilera

People See Much Protective How Very

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

Success People Think Fame Confuse

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

Bruce Springsteen

Tradition Storytelling Narrative Like

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

Passion Animals Defend Academic Far

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

Know Everyday Dishonesty Existence

People don't understand how much influence they can actually have on a writer, how much a writer's feelings can be hurt, how much they can deflect his course when they raise their voices like they did over highly personal books like 'Panama' or 'Bullet Park.'

People Influence Hurt Feelings Park

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