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" When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them. "
Ted Danson
Competitive
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" Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. "
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" A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me. "
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" Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy. "
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" The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable. "
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" To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child. "
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" I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation. "
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" I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire. "
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" Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get. "
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" My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys. "
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" I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers. "
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" 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly - I still think I got the part because of Shelley. "
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Long
Me
" We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true. "
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Nature
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" One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor. "
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" Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term. "
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" I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar. "
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" If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky. "
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Flying
Sky
Airplane
" My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next. "
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Goes
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" You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever. "
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" I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI. "
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" Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark! "
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" I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts. "
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Money
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" To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life. "
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" I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it. "
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" We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil. "
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" Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject. "
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" I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake. "
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" Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified. "
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Talking
" You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy. "
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" We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet. "
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