Peter Benchley Quotes

We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.

Peter Benchley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 8, 1940 - February 11, 2006

Topics

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If you're going to wake up early all the time, and you're working hard, and you're working out, sometimes you're going to get tired. It's OK. It's acceptable - somewhat. We're all human, unfortunately.

Jocko Willink

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I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

Jesse Eisenberg

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The serious problems facing the world... will only be solved if women have a seat at the table and are listened to as to what is required. These issues will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families and their global and local communities.

Jenny Shipley

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But I'd say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

Tom Kite

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Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

Tom Landry

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If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.

Russell Pearce

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Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

Ruben Hinojosa

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When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

Denise Juneau

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When somebody asks me who I'm wearing, I always see myself with a BabyBjoern, carrying a little tiny Karl Lagerfeld, like, 'I'm wearing Chanel.'

Claire Danes

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An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.

Bob Nelson

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As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.

Bozoma Saint John

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