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I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.
Edith Widder
Best
World
Water
Job
Made
Ocean
Think
Fabulous
Percent
Covered
Discoveries
Five
Than
Planet
Explored
Less
Many
I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.
Edmund Phelps
People
Water
Live
Attacking
Could
Delivery
Sharing
Idea
Another
Houses
Without
Boy
Proximity
Same
Happen
Newspaper
Forth
If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.
Edmund White
You
Water
Key
Grass
Way
Out
Has-Been
Beach
Shallow
Most
Until
Imported
Been
Covered
West
Person
Golfer
Sand
Far
Sea
Floor
The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.
Edmund White
Great
Water
Rose
Our
Arbitrary
Seeming
Triumph
Constructed
Onto
Had
Fell
Bed
How
Beds
Been
Up
Normality
Heated
Just
Sixties
Fifties
Twin
We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty of water. It's insane.
Eduardo Bhatia
Rain
Water
Think
Dams
Insane
Plenty
Only
Over
Forest
Rico
Works
Puerto
Here
Puerto Rico
Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.
Edward Burtynsky
Life
Survival
Water
Degree
Before
Society
Other
Resources
Unlike
Critical
Throughout
Shape
Like
Underlying
Question
Begins
Forms
Us
Exploration
Aspects
Used
Many
Core
Wherever you disrupt water from its natural cycle, there's always a winner and a loser. Whoever is the one it's directed towards is the winner, and whoever loses that water is the loser.
Edward Burtynsky
You
Natural
Water
Winner
Directed
Towards
Always
Loser
Loses
Wherever
Cycle
Whoever
Disrupt
No water equals no life. We can have no oil; it's fine. No water - there is no plan b with no water.
Edward Burtynsky
Life
Water
Fine
No Life
Equals
Oil
Plan
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.
Egon Schiele
Suffering
Joy
Water
Plants
Mountains
Trees
Everywhere
Physical
Similar
Mainly
Observing
Reminded
Am
Motion
Human
Impulses
Movements
Human Body
Body
Present
Flowers
Zebra mussels like to hitch a ride on boats when they're transferred from one body of water to another. It's important to make sure to thoroughly clean your boat each time it leaves the water to ensure these invasive mussels are removed and that you are not spreading them to your next location.
Elise Stefanik
Time
You
Ride
Water
Important
Thoroughly
Location
Ensure
Clean
Like
Make
Another
Sure
Spreading
Leaves
Hitch
Transferred
Them
Boat
Boats
Next
Body
Your
Each
Each Time
I really find that when I get on an airplane, I never drink anything but water, and I drink a ton of it. I like to sit in the window, but I'm always climbing over people to go to the bathroom. I'm that seatmate. But ya gotta do it. All about the water.
Elizabeth Banks
People
Water
Sit
Bathroom
Airplane
Find
Window
About
Drink
Never
Over
Like
Ya
Always
Gotta
Climbing
Go
Get
Anything
Really
Ton
I'm a water baby to no end.
Elle King
Water
Baby
End
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.
Elon Musk
Life
Events
Water
Plants
Animals
Half
Important
Earth
About
Only
Advent
Saga
Genuinely
Been
Mammals
Movement
Land
Plants And Animals
Differentiation
Dozen
Consciousness
My grandmother has strongly influenced my approach to beauty. She has always cared for her skin by cleansing and washing her face with warm water in the morning. At all times, she has lipstick on and her face is immaculately powdered - she follows the same routine to this day and looks great at 94.
Emilia Wickstead
Day
Great
Morning
Water
Face
Beauty
Skin
Approach
Follows
Strongly
Cleansing
She
Looks
Always
Times
Lipstick
Same
Influenced
Warm
Grandmother
Washing
Her
Routine
Cared
Conservation is important... water comes at a cost.
Enda Kenny
Water
Important
Cost
Conservation
To stay healthy, I like to eat healthy food. For example a lot of meat, pasta, vegetables and I also have to drink a lot of water and drinks with electrolytes in them.
Eniola Aluko
Food
Water
Vegetables
Example
Healthy
Stay
Eat
Drink
Drinks
Like
For Example
Also
Lot
Pasta
Them
Meat
Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.
Eric Kripke
Food
Water
Our
Dangerously
Supplies
Beyond
Separated
My hair is quite silky and straight; however, every time I wash my hair in Hyderabad, it almost turns into a broom. The water is quite hard, and I didn't realise what the problem was until I saw another friend of mine facing a similar issue.
Erica Fernandes
Time
Problem
Water
Hair
Every
Every Time
Saw
Mine
Broom
Similar
Facing
Almost
Until
Another
Issue
However
Friend
Quite
Realise
Straight
Turns
Hard
Wash
I'm concerned that we don't address the water pollution problems in other countries. If we move forward and don't clean up the messes of the past, they'll just get swept under the rug.
Erin Brockovich
Water
Problems
Past
Other
Other Countries
Rug
Address
Clean
Clean Up
Countries
Concerned
Messes
Up
Get
Move
Move Forward
Just
Pollution
Forward
Swept
When I discovered that hexavalent chromium was causing cancer in the town of Hinkley, California, it led to residents being paid $333m in compensation. But, unbelievably, that chemical remains in our drinking water.
Erin Brockovich
Water
Cancer
Drinking
Our
Unbelievably
Drinking Water
Remains
Town
California
Chemical
Causing
Discovered
Led
Being
Paid
Residents
Compensation
The water system in this country is overwhelmed, and we aren't putting enough resources towards this essential resource. We simply can't continue to survive with toxic drinking water.
Erin Brockovich
Water
Drinking
Country
Enough
Resource
Resources
System
Drinking Water
Simply
Putting
Towards
Toxic
Continue
Overwhelmed
Survive
Essential
To Survive
For me, being green means cleaning up the water. Water is the key. Start with water. You can't ignore the fact that that nearly 80% of US waterways are potentially poisoned - benzene, solvents, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals.
Erin Brockovich
Me
You
Cleaning
Water
Key
Potentially
Fact
Poisoned
Metals
Up
Green
Being
Heavy
Us
Means
Ignore
Nearly
Start
The issues that we're having with water are worse and the magnitude is bigger than anything I imagined possible.
Erin Brockovich
Water
Worse
Possible
Having
Magnitude
Issues
Than
Anything
Bigger
Imagined
If a community water system is forced to conduct a chlorine burn because they are experiencing nitrification, it is because they have failed... It is a remedial action to correct a serious problem they themselves have created because they are cheating on the regulations.
Erin Brockovich
Problem
Water
Cheating
Community
Action
Correct
System
Failed
Forced
Because
Conduct
Burn
Experiencing
Themselves
Created
Regulations
Serious
Water is on the table for every single one us. When it's gone, game over. I don't care what company you run; I don't care if you're Republican or liberal.
Erin Brockovich
You
Game
Water
Care
Single
Gone
Every
Liberal
Run
Table
Over
dont Care
Republican
Us
Company
This is our country, our water. We're entitled to a good life. It's a human rights issue.
Erin Brockovich
Life
Good
Rights
Water
Entitled
Country
Human Rights
Good Life
Our
Rights Issue
Issue
Human
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