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Ocean Quotes
The ocean as metaphor, and as a place to breathe.
Several of these quotes use the ocean as a metaphor for scale and helplessness - civilization compared to thin ice over deep chaos, a person likened to a leaf drifting without any say in where it goes. See Life quotes for more on navigating uncertainty.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature. That's the one thing that tips the balance in terms of living here in California. Within minutes, I can be in a desert, at the ocean, in a park, and that's the most nourishing food for my soul.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is just a long shot, but I definitely would want to work with Frank Ocean. He's the man.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.
- Million Dollars
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- Nov 07, 2020
A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many beach locales offer surf lessons, and you get a different perspective of the ocean when you're out on the water.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a sun and ocean guy.
- Frozen
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- Nov 07, 2020
The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020