Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it."
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Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."
Percival Lowell
Astronomer
"Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points."
Charlie Chaplin
Actor, Filmmaker, Composer
"The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting."
Julio Cortazar
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility; their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl."
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"It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on."
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"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important."
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"I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen."
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"We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men."
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"My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen."
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"Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim."
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"The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers."
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"Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house."
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"It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential."
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"So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
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"Many exhibits from this aquarium use Hawaii's abundant natural daylight. This allows Waikiki to display only live coral, which creates beautiful exhibits. It's also a world leader in the propagation of live coral. The aquarium features some unusual and rarely seen species, including the chambered nautilus and the endangered Hawaiian monk seal."
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"The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular."
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"The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink."
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"This is a great opportunity for gear heads to celebrate the holiday, show off their hot rods and visit the aquarium."
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"England is an aquarium, not a nation."
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"The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have run aground over the centuries. Divers in the exhibit carry on a conversation with visitors outside the tank."
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