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Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked. -- Michael Winter
They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to. -- Richard Dean Anderson
I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it. -- Dimitar Sasselov
Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp. -- R. Lee Ermey
The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967. -- R. Lee Ermey
I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. -- Cobie Smulders
We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength. -- John M. McHugh
Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering. -- Catherine Bell
I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life. -- Jim Webb
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. -- William Shakespeare
My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life. -- Peter Cullen
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible. -- Wynton Marsalis
Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back. -- Enric Sala
Look, many of us here are regular marines... I will die as a marine because that is my dream. -- Jerry Jones
I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years. -- Lee Trevino
Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater. -- Sylvia Earle
I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist. -- Edith Widder
After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that life. -- David Douglas Duncan
Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam. -- R. Lee Ermey
Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market. -- Dana Rohrabacher
President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy. -- Robert McFarlane
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals. -- Georges Cuvier
Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the seas most exquisite species will not survive. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did. -- R. Lee Ermey
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago. -- Joseph C. Lincoln
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. -- William Manchester
I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley. -- Douglass North
Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour. -- Ian Watson
I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously. -- Raymond Kelly
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned. -- Jon Kyl
I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool! -- Catherine Bell
But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life. -- Hugh Shelton
If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you. -- Shane Smith
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way. -- Harvey Keitel
The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals. -- Ted Danson
All right, you got that out of your system. Can I get back in the boat without you striking me again? Or should I stay out here enjoying the marine life?" "Why don't you swim around until you find a shark? Then you can discuss how much the two of you have in common -- Jeaniene Frost
I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth. -- Cobie Smulders
I wouldn't want to go back over my life. I've done it all. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the Marine Corps. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the war. I wouldn't have missed college. Or playin' for the Colts. I got all the money I need. Five children. I got a truck. I have no regrets whatsoever. -- Art Donovan
It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. -- Chris Kyle
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's. -- Adam Driver
Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive. -- Sandra Postel
The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
You'd figure he'd go do something with his life, like maybe he could enlist and actually become a marine! -- CM Punk

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