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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
Parker Stevenson
Memories
Water
Looking
Strongest
Small
Had
Same
Northeast
Going
Children
Wanted
Harbor
Exposure
Dad
Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.
Parris Glendening
Depression
Water
State
Our
Table
Rivers
Since
Dry
Been
Low
The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs - food, water, energy, sanitation - is threatened by climate change.
Patricia Espinosa
Food
Needs
Change
Basic Needs
Water
Energy
Meet
Ability
Threatened
Most
Climate
Climate Change
Sanitation
Communities
Basic
Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
Patrick Kavanagh
Life
Water
Spring
Cities
Rather
Main
River
Like
Artificially
Novel
I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.
Patrick Modiano
You
Writing
Water
Pool
Swimming
Difficult
Too
Cold
Dream
Like
Because
Around
Jump
Quickly
Walking
Get
Want
Realised
Create
Novel
Swimming Pool
Started
I'm a dancer so anything related to dance I love to do. I also tried Zumba last week. That thing is tough! 15 minutes in I was going for a water break. It wasn't easy!
Patti Stanger
Love
Water
Dance
Tough
Related
Dancer
Tried
Easy
Minutes
Week
Also
Going
Anything
Break
Thing
Last
I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.
Pattie Boyd
Me
Water
School
Girl
Late
Late Teens
Teens
Out
Never
Stepfather
Excruciating
Like
Until
Felt
Boy
Boyfriend
Came
Fish
Did
Any
Going
Anybody
Boarding
Boarding School
Them
Asked
Really
Across
Petrified
Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses.
Paul Bloom
Happiness
Natural
People
World
Water
Naked
Our
Out
Some
Only
Tour
Bottles
Dropped
Devices
Terrifying
Source
Yosemite
Modern
Want
Swamp
Doses
Us
Fulfillment
Natural World
Gross
Appealing
Prescribed
Right
Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.
Paul Farmer
Vote
Rights
Problem
Water
Political
Care
Sick
Destitute
Critical
Civil
Clean
Clean Water
Haiti
Real
Political Rights
Get
Real Problem
Often
Patients
Now
Medical
Medical Care
The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear.
Paul Gosar
Legal
Water
Made
Waters
Definition
Clean
Clean Water
Clear
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Repeatedly
Expand
Authority
EPA
Act
Water's about everything. And when the federal government controls water, it controls everything - that's the problem.
Paul Gosar
Government
Problem
Water
Everything
About
Federal
Federal Government
Controls
I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.
Paul Lynde
Day
Fruit
Water
Glasses
Week
Take
Never
Vegetable
Instead
Never Take
Days
Couple
Go
Juices
Liquid
Often
Six
Maybe
Just
Fast
Every time we get into an argument about cooking or laundering shirts, she shakes her Oscar at me, and I'm dead in the water. It would be a great equalizer now after 33 years.
Paul Newman
Time
Great
Me
Cooking
Water
Argument
Every
Every Time
Would
Would-Be
About
Shakes
Dead
She
Equalizer
Years
Shirts
Get
After
Now
Her
Oscar
There are billions of people in the world who deserve the better quality of life that products such as soap, shampoo, and clean drinking water can provide.
Paul Polman
Life
Quality
People
World
Water
Better
Drinking
Clean
Drinking Water
Shampoo
Better Quality
Quality Of Life
Provide
Soap
Products
Who
Billions
Deserve
Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served several purposes: killing contaminants, softening the flesh, and extracting the rich soluble polysaccharides.
Paul Stamets
Water
Rich
Tea
Mushrooms
Our
Several
Ancestors
Purposes
Soothing
Make
Flesh
Boiling
Served
This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.
Paul Tsongas
Water
Young
Our
Air
Legacy
Land
Planet
One of the things I think is really cool that we're testing on board the International Space Station is the water reclamation system.
Peggy Whitson
Water
Space
Think
Station
System
One Of The Things
Testing
Space Station
Board
Really
Cool
International
International Space Station
Things
I have two people that I mainly look up to: Magic Johnson is one of them. He just blew everything out of the water. He didn't make much money in basketball, but since basketball has been over, he's investing in the community and making a lot of money at the same time. The next one I look up to is Sean Combs, who has always been a hustler.
Penny Hardaway
Time
People
Money
Water
Community
Everything
Out
Has-Been
Magic
Magic Johnson
Hustler
Johnson
He
Investing
Mainly
Over
Since
Look
Blew
Make
Always
Making
Been
Lot
Up
Same
Just
Same Time
Them
Much
Next
Who
Sean
Two
Two People
Basketball
Cats, it turns out, are even less fond of being dunked in water than Shitsus.
Penny Junor
Cats
Water
Out
Fond
Than
Being
Turns
Less
Even
'In-between' is sort of - an animator does the key poses. He'll do extremes, you know, like a character reaching out for a glass of water and then another one of him drinking. And the in-betweener has to do all the drawings that goes between those two. You know it could be 12, 23 whatever in-betweens.
Pete Docter
Character
You
Water
Key
Drinking
Whatever
Extremes
Those
Drawings
Out
Could
Animator
He
Glass
Between
Like
Know
Reaching
Him
Sort
Another
Does
Goes
In-Between
Then
Two
Poses
When I came to Congress in 1993, the traditional idea that all politics stopped at the water's edge was alive and well. Americans had been unified for the previous four decades against the threat from the former Soviet Union and communism.
Pete Hoekstra
Politics
Communism
Water
Edge
Congress
Alive
Threat
Previous
Had
Idea
Well
Came
Traditional
Been
Decades
American
Soviet
Soviet Union
Stopped
Former
Against
Unified
Union
Four
A stand-up act is almost like a pool. You know what I mean? It's like a pool, and you're always skimming little leaves out of it, messing with the chlorine level, putting up umbrellas. You're trying to make one little stagnant body of water perfect. Whereas a late-night show is like a river, always moving forward.
Pete Holmes
You
Moving Forward
Water
Pool
Late-Night
Out
Perfect
River
Almost
Putting
Like
Know
Make
Messing
Always
Leaves
Up
Trying
Whereas
Stagnant
Little
Moving
Mean
Body
Act
Show
Forward
Level
Water is commonly regarded as the 'solvent of life,' since our bodies are 70% water. All other vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, and plants are also primarily water. The organization of water within biological compartments is fundamental to life, and the aquaporins serve as the plumbing systems for cells.
Peter Agre
Life
Water
Organization
Plants
Other
Our
Systems
Solvent
Plumbing
Primarily
Since
Also
Within
Cells
Regarded
Commonly
Bodies
Fundamental
Serve
Biological
Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn't just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occurs rapidly in tissues that have these aquaporins or water channels.
Peter Agre
Water
Sit
Every
Channels
Our
Way
Rapidly
Through
Primarily
Occurs
Very
Cell
Just
Moves
Process
Body
Organized
There's not a day that goes by that I don't bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and rub the medal of the Virgin Mary that she gave me and say a Hail Mary for my mother. And then I kiss her Mass card that's right there on the dashboard.
Peter Criss
Myself
Day
Me
Water
Mother
Car
Kiss
Gave
Say
Mary
Hail
Mass
Bless
She
Get
Goes
Then
Holy
Medal
Card
Her
Right
Rub
I've been there a thousand years, and I never felt comfortable. Beverly Hills - when I first saw it, I thought they put it up this morning. You got to pack water to get to the drugstore.
Peter Falk
Morning
You
Water
Thought
First
Saw
Thousand
Thousand Years
Never
Put
Beverly
Beverly Hills
Drugstore
Hills
Comfortable
Felt
Got
Been
Years
Up
Get
Pack
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