J. M. Roberts Quotes
Hang in there, all of you out on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan or on aboard ships in the middle of the ocean.
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I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.
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Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
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When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.
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The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
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I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
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We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.
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We are not going to abandon Iraq.
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There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.
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Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
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The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.
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With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
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The first mission to Mars did not expect to find craters and river valleys, and yet they did. The first mission to Jupiter didn't expect to find ocean worlds and volcano worlds, but they did.
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Within us lies the peace, the beauty, the glory of our being. There is an ocean of all that. We cannot seek it outside, we have to go within.
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There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.
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Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.
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I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters.
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Hang in there, all of you out on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan or on aboard ships in the middle of the ocean.
