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• Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

  Lionel Blue

  Saws, Idolatry, Repression

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• I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.

  Laurent Jalabert

  Sorry, Winning, Goal

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• A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Lighthouse, Dangerous, Fallen

  "At last!; More Lance Cairns; and Less Navjot Sidhu" by Lawrence Booth, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2003.

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• In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

  Eban Goodstein

  Rain, Home, Butterfly

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• I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Saws, Lawyer, Making Money

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.344, Essential Library

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• I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Healthy, Able, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Technology, Animal

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

  Natalie Wood

  Stars, Home, Swimming

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• Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Trying, Novelists, Stories

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• I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

  Joel Silver

  Stupid, People, Saws

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• I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

  Paul McCartney

  Jobs, Trying, Want

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• I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

  Christopher Columbus

  Broken Heart, Boys, Glasses

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.50

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• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.128, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

  Bruce Sterling

  Ideas, Environmental, Parks

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• I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Humanity, Saws, Harmony

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris

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• We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

  Margot Kidder

  Mom, Goodbye, New York

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.

  Enric Sala

  Ocean, Islands, Algae

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• I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

  Dakota Fanning

  Believe, Men, Fire

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• In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me

  Paul Reiser

  Dad, Ideas, Saws

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• Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any

  Cab Calloway

  Fun, Saws, Segregation

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• Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cells, Cities, Add

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160

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• For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.

  Kevin Rudd

  Fire, Rivers, Risk

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• Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.

  James Hansen

  Stress, Rain, Ocean

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• Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

  James Dwight Dana

  Ignorance, Science, Rocks

  James Dwight Dana (1872). “Corals and Coral Islands”, p.17

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• I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.

  Christopher Judge

  Thinking, Mind, Actors

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