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• Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

  Peter Benchley

  Ocean, Predator, Chains

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• Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

  Jim Toomey

  Character, Two, White

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• I don't think you can be a diver without a shark on the list.

  Natalie Dormer

  Thinking, Lists

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning

  Saul Williams

  Italian, Blood, Bread

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• Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway.

  Kim Harrison

  People, Would Be, Eating

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• You know, it actually can happen. I mean, the chances of it happening are very rare, but it can happen actually. Which is crazy. Not that it—the chances of it are, like, you know, it's like probably ‘pigs could fly.' Like, I don't think pigs could fly, but actually sharks could be stuck in tornados. There could be a sharknado.

  Tara Reid

  Crazy, Mean, Thinking

  "The Cast of Sharknado 2 Share Their Survival Tips" by Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. July 24, 2014.

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• My position is this. If we can't protect sanctuaries, if we can't save the whales, the sharks, the fish, our oceans will die.

  Paul Watson

  Ocean, Whales, Sanctuary

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• We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50 years, opportunities might well be gone.

  Sylvia Earle

  Opportunity, Years, Waiting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, 'Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!'

  Bjork

  Lemurs, Labels, Want

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 29, 2011.

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• There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sweet, Opportunity, Sea

  "Her Majesty of the Deep Blue Sea: An Interview with Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.

  Rachel Carson

  Stars, Ocean, Home

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

  Bill Gates

  Impact, Years, People

  "The Deadliest Animal in the World" by Bill Gates, www.gatesnotes.com. April 25, 2014.

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• The only thing on the mind of a shark is to eat.

  Lil Wayne

  Mind

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• I don't look back. I'm like a shark - I only look forward.

  Rita Rudner

  Regret, Looks

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• There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.

  L. M. Boyd

  Animal, Pool, Loan

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• Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

  Jules Verne

  Sleep, Men, Captains

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.120, Jules Verne

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• What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

  Margaret Atwood

  Survivor, May, Share

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• In the Mediterranean of my childhood, there were no large groupers, sharks, or whales. All I saw was seaweed and a few fish, smaller than my little diving mask. All the large animals were gone, simply because we had eaten them.

  Enric Sala

  Animal, Whales, Childhood

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• You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Sea, Water, Sameness

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2014

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• Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.

  James Lee

  Squirrels, Turtles, Elephants

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• Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sea, Ecosystems, Squids

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• Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity

  Neal Shusterman

  Aquariums, Space, Long

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize that it's the enemy. It's a distraction from what you're really doing. You've got to keep moving. Like a shark.

  Jack White

  Moving, Inspiration, Enemy

  "The Raconteurs". Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• What's the inside of a shark smell like? I always thought it would smell like chicken.

  Judd Hirsch

  Smell, Chickens

  "'Sharknado 2': Craziest Kills, Cheesiest Lines" by Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 30, 2014.

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• If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

  Tea Leoni

  Ocean, Swim, Littles

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

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