Peter Benchley Quotes

Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a certain extent the East Coast of the United States as well.

Peter Benchley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself. And that's kind of what happened with me - I realized, in a few places, I was going down the wrong path.

Jill Scott

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It is in my heart that I believe most strongly that our future is within a reformed E.U. - not least because we now live in a global marketplace.

Andrew Lansley

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We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

Melvyn Bragg

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My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.

John Lithgow

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Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all.

John Shelby Spong

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I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

Amelie Nothomb

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To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because they don't understand Islam to be a church.

Stanley Hauerwas

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To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What I'm writing is real.

Sophie Kinsella

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How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

Spike Milligan

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For every profanity, there's a story behind it. People should go beyond my cussing.

Rodrigo Duterte

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You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

Rowan Atkinson

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The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!

Mireille Mathieu

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