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Peter Benchley Quotes

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Time Water Ocean Sharks Forget Our

I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, 'The Artist is Present', in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.

Love Beautiful Time Art Red Dress

Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.

Learning Knowledge Guitar Learn You

I just really, really, really hate to lose. Really.

Hate Lose Just Really

I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

Matthew Desmond

Tradition Sociology Urban Come Which

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

World Profound Sayings Few Very

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Age Sad Old Age Old Hopes Our

I turned atheist in the '90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.

Live Religion India Atheist Mumbai

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

Laughter Comedy Unique Noise Sense

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

Sidney Blumenthal

Health Mistakes Care Strategy Early

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

Good Thought Career Way Up Comment

Clearly, when you win everything, it's fun. That doesn't necessarily mean you love the game more.

Love Fun Win Game You Mean

I think older women's voices are the most hated voices in the world - whether it's because people are reminded of their mothers or what, I don't know.

Women People World Think Know Older

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