"Look at me. Home boy wore combat boots to the beach. I know you don’t want to call that your boyfriend, I know you don’t."
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"Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him."
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"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
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"Every drop in the ocean counts."
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"If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach."
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"Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches."
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"Manchester's got everything except a beach."
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"You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball."
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"I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it."
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"Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot."
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"Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach. The idea is so comically daft that only one thing explains its survival-that lonely, frightened people wanted to expel God from the Universe because they found the idea that He exists profoundly uncomfortable."
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"The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?"
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"Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever."
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"Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore."
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"The sea hath no king but God alone."
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"Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere."
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"I would much rather end up a fertiliser under a sunflower which is eventually made into sunflower seed oil so that instead of nibbling me in her prawn cocktail, the pretty girl will rub me on her bristols as she suns herself on a beach in the Caribbean."
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"On the beach, you can live in bliss."
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"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth."
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"Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun."
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