- Preparedness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.
- Certain Extent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a certain extent the East Coast of the United States as well.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.
- Catastrophic
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- Nov 07, 2020