Brian Skerry Quotes
I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.
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It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.
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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
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I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change.
