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DAVID HASSELHOFF It's filled with water from the Hudson River, and we have to shake it up.
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JEROME CHARYN The discussion is about water in the river. We have a right to our water in the river within the con...
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CYBILL SHEPHERD Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to othe...
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NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Storm water is a source of pollution, because there are pollutants in our environment that the storm...
LARRY ALTOSE Whether it's veterans' disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping ou...
SEAN PATRICK MALONEY Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and B...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I&#...
ANDIE MACDOWELL Don't use tap water to make your colloidal silver. Use pure distilled water only. And don't ...
STAN JONES They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ...
BROOKE SMITH What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, o...
GREG MACGILLIVRAY We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we ...
GABY HOFFMANN If there's a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a...
MUHTAR KENT Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution...
MA JUN We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can wa...
JOSH RADNOR Water is the lifeblood of our communities. Whether or not government wants to recognize it, growth m...
SANDY BAHR About a quarter of the bottled water sold in the U.S. actually is just tap water.
DAN FAVRE I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, hand...
KOBE BRYANT Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both.
MANOJ BHARGAVA I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's ...
IKE TURNER It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
BUDDHA I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel mor...
KATE WALSH Never be tempted by water. The water tap should be sealed at lunchtime. If, for example, a sauce goe...
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing un...
EMILY ARNOLD Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player...
ROB LOWE It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came...
MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water. So be a channel.
ENGLISH PROVERB I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal th...
BRAD DELSON I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science...
EMMA CAULFIELD It's like drinking water. You have to have water every day, and music is like water for me.
TROMBONE SHORTY If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Ma...
MARTIN O'MALLEY Pollution / Jesus soon we can all walk on water
LOESJE Big trees have more leaves to trap air pollution and transpire water into the air. They have more ro...
DEBORAH GANGLOFF Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... ...
JAMES WRIGHT We're issuing this brown water advisory as a precaution because heavy rains are going to wash whatev...
LAURENCE LAU But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whet...
EDDIE HUANG Safe drinking water isn't just something to worry about on your tropical vacation. U.S. tap wate...
SARA GILBERT I'm trying to drink more water.
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NINA EASTON Dale is somewhat community-minded. He does have a raw water tap ... that he could use the heck out o...
KATHY FINLEY I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's ...
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS Many of us live near the Hudson River. It's a thread that runs through our lives. By keeping the riv...
ANDY BICKING I'm a pretty casual dresser. At home, it's probably whatever is functional to relax in, whet...
TOM BRADY I always have water, tons of water. It's even in my bathroom because I used to be so bad at drin...
SELENA GOMEZ I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
MIKE MAY Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the...
IGGY POP Our biggest problem is getting across the Hudson River.
RON BOWMAN I hate plastic bottles. Just think about it before you buy one. We pay more for a gallon of water th...
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TIM MCDONOUGH I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my bell...
EDDIE VEDDER There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after s...
ERMA BOMBECK The only thing I really love is Fiji water. That's like the only crazy request - I don't lik...
KELLY ROWLAND The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of ...
GEORGE VANCOUVER When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minne...
CHESLEY SULLENBERGER People think bottled water is healthier and safer than tap, but in fact, bottled water is much less ...
DAN FAVRE As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving i...
SARAH CARTER A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone w...
THEODORE WHITE I swim laps, which is nice because I'm weightless in the water.
MORENA BACCARIN I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'...
LARRY FITZGERALD I love being on the water, wakesurfing and wakeboarding. I'm not thinking about golf. I'm ju...
DUSTIN JOHNSON The most urgent task is to check water pollution to ensure the safety of drinking water, and we must...
ZHOU SHENGXIAN When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort o...
GRAHAM MOORE I'm not a very good swimmer, and every time I'm in the water, I'm constantly reminded of...
TOM HOLLAND Once I'm on stage, there's just no time for a sip of water - I've always got my hands in...
NINA CONTI I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life...
ISHMAEL BEAH I'm probably one of the few people that liked 'Water World' with Kevin Costner.
BERT BLYLEVEN I surf, swim, play water polo, and I paddle an outrigger canoe with my team. I'm also a klutz on...
AULI'I CRAVALHO It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are...
DAN QUAYLE If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon wo...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I don't know, maybe I'm immature, but I still find it funny if I dump cold water on my girlf...
DANIEL TOSH I'm a tap dancer. Once you're a tap dancer, you're always a tap dancer. In 'After Mi...
DULE HILL I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. ...
PHILIPPE PETIT Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it...
L.A. REID I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
DAVID BOWIE I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.
WARREN CUCCURULLO I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a r...
J. COLE Water's never clumsy.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the riv...
ROSECRANS BALDWIN I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was ...
MARK MARGOLIS Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, art...
PATRICK KAVANAGH I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really fu...
SUMMER SANDERS We don't do laundry because that requires a lot of water, and water's at a premium up here. ...
SCOTT KELLY I'm a total water-baby. I've seen some pristine beaches, from Greece to Goa.
ESHA GUPTA Waitress: "And to drink?"
Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As...
EOIN COLFER One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different riv...
DONALD TRUMP It's true; I have a skill and it's... it has not related to acting, it's not related to ...
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GORE VIDAL Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere bec...
GORE VIDAL Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.
GORE VIDAL You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel do...
GORE VIDAL Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and...
GORE VIDAL Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe a...
GORE VIDAL Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDAL Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel...
GORE VIDAL The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps for...
GORE VIDAL The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
GORE VIDAL In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upo...
GORE VIDAL My memory plays me odd tricks these days [...] Age spares us nothing, old friend. Like ancient trees...
GORE VIDAL ...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
GORE VIDAL The failure of Hellenism has been, largely, a matter of organization. Rome never tried to impose any...
GORE VIDAL But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more s...
GORE VIDAL