"It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain basement, but I don't agree with that estimate. People don't realize that water in the liquid state is very rare in the universe. Away from earth it is usually a gas. This moisture is a blessed treasure, and it is our basic duty, if we don't want to commit suicide, to preserve it."

-- Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“I love yoga because not only is it a workout for your body, but also your breathing, which helps release a lot of stress. It really prepares you for the day.”
“I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.”
“I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.”
“The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.”
“Poland is a sovereign state. We want the same rights as all other EU countries. Nothing more, but nothing less, either.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.”

Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.
“We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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