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Rip Torn

"You can never turn your back on the ocean."

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"You can never turn your back on the ocean."

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"Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it."

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"The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you."

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"Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen."

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"Ocean is not supposed to be scared of the drops."

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"It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away."

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"I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean."

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"I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins."

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"I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down."

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"We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath."

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"If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years."

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