Sharks Quotes

• Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but youre more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

  Ted Danson

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

  "Oceans Activist Ted Danson on California's Shark Fin Ban (Exclusive Q&A)". Interview with Degen Pener, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2011.

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• Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks.

  Sylvia Earle

  Beautiful, Ocean, Mean

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• I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

  Don Johnson

  Swimming, Simple, Sea

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• The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

  Paul Watson

  Years, Sea, Defense

  "Sea Shepherd: How We Sank the Japanese Whaling Fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

  Dave Barry

  Football, Intelligent, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

  Peter Benchley

  Believe, Men, World

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• I dont like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by Jaws.

  David Duchovny

  Ocean, Thinking, Ideas

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• Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

  Malin Akerman

  Beautiful, Animal, Interest

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

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• Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

  Ashley Scott

  People, Age, Daylight

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• The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Blood, Smell

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• Passion, for me, is like a shark - it never stops moving.

  Jack White

  Moving, Passion

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• When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

  Taylor Lautner

  Crazy, Nice, Swimming

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• We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks - I was telling people don't go to loan sharks - not trying to take advantage and make money for myself. I would be a junior loan shark if I did ... It is not a panacea.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fighting, People, Trying

  "Muhammad Yunus: 'Business is a beautiful mechanism to solve problems'". Interview with Liz Ford, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

  Francesca Annis

  Agents, Starting Out, Actresses

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• Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Slave Ships, Light, Slavery

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1982). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly ; The Minister's Wooing ; Oldtown Folks”, p.530, Library of America

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• There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

  Steve Lacy

  Fear, Real, People

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• As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.

  Lori Greiner

  Entrepreneur, Trying, Enough

  "8 Characteristics Shared by the Shark Tank Team" by John Rampton, www.foxnews.com. September 06, 2016.

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• Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as any bird. They're as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulses―except for hunger―they respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one.

  Peter Benchley

  Beautiful, Dream, Animal

  Peter Benchley (2012). “Jaws”, p.104, Fawcett

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• But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.

  David Blaine

  Worry

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

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• French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Gun, People, Fries

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• You don't have to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the person you're with.

  Kevin Nealon

  Swim, Faster, Persons

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• I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.

  Kenny Chesney

  Moving, Constantly Moving

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• Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

  Peter Benchley

  Target, Grudge, Humans

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• When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

  Lewis Carroll

  Gay, Voice, Larks

  Lewis Carroll (1913). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.62, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.

  Ted Danson

  Ocean, Years, Important

  "Oceans Activist Ted Danson on California's Shark Fin Ban (Exclusive Q&A)". Interview with Degen Pener, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2011.

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