The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we're all connected; we're all in this together.
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Related Like my father and grandfather, Philippe and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, I've dedicated my life to ex... PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba div... PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of... BEN OKRI The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien wor... JAMES CAMERON When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwate... ENRIC SALA I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean i... AARON PEIRSOL One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably... EDITH WIDDER Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters ... MORRIS GLEITZMAN Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that yo... SYLVIA EARLE I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN I go to an all-Hawaiian school, and we learn everything about being Hawaiian. We have a really deep ... AULI'I CRAVALHO My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings ... MEGAN MIRANDA I believe in love. I believe in good stories. I play really hard on the weekends because I like to h... CHANNING TATUM I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming beca... TED DANSON Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on ... KYLE ABRAHAM Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's aroun... FREDDIE PRINZE, JR. I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably sur... PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they're the major s... CRAIG VENTER We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I love Frank Ocean. We're going to get married. In true life, we should get married. ALEX NEWELL Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau has gone to the Silent World this Wednesday, June 25, 1997 BRUCE BABBITT That is why they are all tied together right from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean today participat... TERRY FOX My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of U... CAROLYN MURPHY Better being a drop in the ocean than not in the ocean at all. ADAM BAILLIE I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very sel... DRAKE Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The... AIMEE TEEGARDEN If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you&... CARL SAFINA I wonder if the sea life we extract from the ocean, observe, and put back in the ocean have the same... BREANNA CASELLA The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all ... YAHOO SERIOUS Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's... ANDREW STANTON All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about... EDWARD BALL In terms of 'Beyond the Lights' and 'Belle,' they're definitely stories about id... GUGU MBATHA-RAW We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that w... SOURCE UNKNOWN Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? B... SYLVIA EARLE I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine. SRI SATHYA SAI BABA The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ... SUMMER SANDERS Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocea... JHUMPA LAHIRI Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and i... ERIC RIPERT On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. ALEXANDER POPE We are providing a variety of programs for the general public on Tuesday, March 14, and Wednesday, M... ELLA BOYD What comes from the ocean, always returns to the ocean. JACOB K. ADAMS I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of ... KEN LIU As a director you're always so busy - you're go, go, go, you're always moving, moving, m... JAMES WAN My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're go... BOB CORKER I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell produ... BOB EDWARDS There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunri... RAVI SHANKAR Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean,... JOHN F. KENNEDY It's really interesting how a tiny little shell from a sea creature living millions of years ago can... FLAVIA NUNES Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the ... DANICA MCKELLAR Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. RYUNOSUKE SATORO Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, act... KATE FORSYTH What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the oc... MOTHER TERESA Even the upper end of the riverbelieves in the ocean. WILLIAM STAFFORD I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories wit... MICHAEL IRVIN We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in th... MOTHER THERESA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in th... MOTHER TERESA The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their live... MORRIS GLEITZMAN We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less be... MOTHER TERESA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less be... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Stories shared in your kitchen will strengthen your family than the stories shared your bedroom KENNETH MAHUKA Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best ... ROBERT BALLARD Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is ha... FREEMAN DYSON I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all pre... JEMIMA KIRKE The empathy I found reading 'Heidi' and 'Little Women' is empathy we have as human b... JEWELL PARKER RHODES HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We... WALTER MOSLEY Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain nat... VLADIMIR PUTIN We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath. BRAD DOURIF I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears. ANNA BANKS My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. Sh... MATT BARR We're the kind of family that gets together for Sunday lunch. I see my younger sister all the ti... KATE WINSLET In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using th... EMILIO ESTEVEZ If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... The emotions we all endure is the ocean of our soul STEVEN ESPINOSA Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It... ROZ SAVAGE Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember a... DAN O'BRIEN My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earl... RICK MOODY I think the Democratic Party is about family, about unity, about bringing people together. We're... BILL RICHARDSON You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother ... EMILIO ESTEVEZ We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but ... TOM BRADY Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Quest stories are about the oldest form of narrative there is, and they're also the perfect meta... SIMON TOYNE You are the ocean to my eyes. SANOBER KHAN All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making c... ISSEY MIYAKE We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn... YOKO ONO It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent ... EDITH WIDDER As an explorer, I know firsthand there are many places in the ocean so full of life that they should... PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand... ACTION BRONSON From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's... JOEL SALATIN The ocean and I have many pebblesTo find and wash off and roll into shape. WILLIAM STAFFORD Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he en... FREEMAN DYSON For artists of my caliber, we're not played on the radio, so we don't really get a chance to... BOY GEORGE We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, ... PETER DINKLAGE Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one. TAYLOR DYE I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it. JAMES CAMERON
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I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the stre... PHILIPPE PETIT I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the hi... PHILIPPE PETIT I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what ... PHILIPPE PETIT Every time I do a project, I always look around and see if (there's) anybody else out there who's ex... PHILIPPE STARCK And you spend your evening in your color. The idea is to take things which open (your) mind, that sp... PHILIPPE STARCK (It's) sort of long corridor that you walk and suddenly you are green, PHILIPPE STARCK The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a ... PHILIPPE PERRIN I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, hi... PHILIPPE PETIT If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood... 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JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will dis... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human be... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the condit... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The sea is the universal sewer. JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no righ... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, woul... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it. JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you ... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a liter... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one. JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has o... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing... JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to real... JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets. JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genom... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON Race differences show up early in life. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individu... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canad... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjec... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achie... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reprodu... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morpholo... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON What is conceived well is expressed clearly. PHILIPPE NERICAULT DESTOUCHES Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humanki... JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people w... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and bui... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON