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It’s a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.

John Hoeven

American banker and politician (born 1957)

To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense… you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

Sam Worthington

Australian actor born 1976

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you’re going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.

David R. Ellis

American film director and actor (1952-2013)

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour.

Ben Kingsley

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

Antony Hewish

English physicist and radio astronomer (1924-2021)

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

Jeff Goldblum

American actor and musician

We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.

William Henry Ashley

We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

Warren Christopher

U.S. Secretary of State (1925-2011)

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

John Dyer

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Alan Rickman

British actor and director (1946-2016)

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