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It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion
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Walt Disney Company
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Look, you're really cute, but I can't understand what you're saying
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Walt Disney Company
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When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? . . . Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.
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Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1))
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Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic."
"Is it seriously about fish?"
"Yeah, but really cool fish.
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Alexandra Adornetto (Heaven (Halo, #3))
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Just keep swimming.
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Dory
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Dear Ellen,
"Just keep swimming."
Recognize that quote, Ellen? It's what Dory says to Marlin in Finding Nemo.
"Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming."
I'm not a huge fan of cartoons, but I'll give you props for that one. I like cartoons that can make you laughter, but also make you feel something. After today, think that's my favorite cartoon. Because I've been feeling like drowning lately, and sometimes people need a reminder that they just need to keep swimming.
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Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1))
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They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo.
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Karl Pilkington (An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington)
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It's 4:40am and i'm standing in the middle of a Quentin Tarantino version of Finding Nemo
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Holly Smale (Model Misfit (Geek Girl, #2))
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Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming.
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Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo)
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The way he said friend reminded me of the way the shark in Finding Nemo chased Merlin in hopes to be friends not food.
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Rachel Van Dyken (Pull (Seaside, #2))
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Love is a force that can’t be forced.
Let it find you. It knows your address and who it is supposed to deliver within your path will be shipped to you unexpectedly.
Be sure that your life isn’t cluttered and that your heart is ready enough to welcome it.
You will find “Nemo,” before you ever find love, let it find you.
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Pierre Alex Jeanty (To the Women I Once Loved)
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Just keep swimming, just keep swimming
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Dory Finding Nemo
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However strange his destiny may be, it is also sublime! I myself have understood that much. Did I not also live this unnatural life for ten months? Thus, to that question asked six thousand years ago by Ecclesiastes, 'That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?' only two men now have the right to answer: Captain Nemo and myself.
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Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
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Did he use tongue? Did he growl? Was he shirtless? Did he motorboat you? Did you touch his abs? Did you lick his sharp jaw? Is he the size of a horse? Did you giddy up? Did you find his Nemo? Did you Grace his Frankie? Did you Justin his Timberlake?
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Brittainy C. Cherry (The Air He Breathes (Elements, #1))
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Okay, I know it's weird, but whenever I watch a movie like this and someone goes underwater, I hold my breath to see if I would have survived."
"It's not weird. I do that too. But I almost died watched Finding Nemo.
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Sariah Wilson (#Starstruck (#Lovestruck, #1))
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Just keep Swimming!
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Ellen DeGeneres
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The opposite occurs in protandry, in which individuals begin life as males and transform into females. Examples include the clownfish (Amphiprion), whose behavior could have offered an intriguing alternative resolution to the animated film Finding Nemo.
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Bill Schutt (Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History)
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Did you find his Nemo? Did you Grace his Frankie? Did you Justin his Timberlake?
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Brittainy C. Cherry (The Air He Breathes (Elements, #1))
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Did you cry while watching ‘Finding Nemo’? Niall did!
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Jennifer Anderson (Niall Horan: 201 Facts for True Fans!)
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Lottie told me. She likes talking about you. I know that you hate to eat bananas, you stopped believing in Santa when you were three, and you always start crying at the same place in Finding Nemo.
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Kerstin Gier (Das erste Buch der Träume (Silber, #1))
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May the judge disappear, and the philosopher continue the peaceful exploration of the sea! If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime. Have I not understood it myself? Have I not lived ten months of this unnatural life? And to the question asked by Ecclesiastes three thousand years ago, "That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?" two men alone of all now living have the right to give an answer—— CAPTAIN NEMO AND MYSELF.
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Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea)
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Dory can you see anything?" (Marlin)
"Ah! Something's got me!" (Dory)
"Sorry! That was me." (Marlin)
"*gasps* Who's that?!" (Dory)
"'Who's that' Who do you think it could be; it's me. (Marlin)
"Are... Are you my conscience?" (Dory)
"Yeah, Yeah, I'm your conscience. We haven't spoken for a while" (Marlin)
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Finding Nemo
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His smile reminded her of Bruce, the friendly shark from Finding Nemo- he'd be your friend until he smelled blood; then you better run for your life. Tonight, MJ was the fresh meat.
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Amy E. Reichert (Luck, Love & Lemon Pie)
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Have you ever been to the beach and wanted to feed the seagulls? The problem is you tear off a little crust from your sandwich and toss it to one, and ten more show up. Toss a little more and a flock descends. You start to wonder: if I run out of bread, will I become the meal?
Turkeys are different. They startle easily and run for the barn. In the wild, they run for the hills. Of course, they’re very tasty. Benjamin Franklin thought them majestic enough to be an emblem for our country. I’m sorry, but Thanksgiving would be downright depressing. There’s our national symbol lying stuffed and roasted and ready to carve up for hungry guests.
And then we have the eagles. Our forefathers were trained in the Bible. […]They would have known Isaiah 40:31. “Those who wait upon the Lord will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.” They were making war on the greatest power in the world of the time; the world was watching them. What could this band of commoners do?
What troubles me about our country today is how many seagulls there are, scrambling for more. Remember the movie “Finding Nemo”? “Mine, mine, mine!” And we sure have a lot of gutless turkeys running for the barn whenever hard decisions have to be made; like how to keep our country solvent so our children won’t be in soup lines…
Where are the eagles? That’s what I want to know. Please, God, we need us some eagles!
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Francine Rivers
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Now, granted, Howard doesn't fit the conventional psychological profile of a rebounder - that of the no-nonsense, utilitarian "dirty work" specialist. Rather, this is a guy who sings Beyoncé at the free throw line, who quotes not Scarface but Finding Nemo, whose idea of humor is ordering 10 pizzas to be delivered to another player's hotel room, or knocking on teammates' doors and sprinting off down the hall, giggling. He goofs around during practice, during press conferences and during team shootarounds, for which Magic coach Stan Van Gundy has had to institute a no-flatulence rule because, as teammate Rashard Lewis says, "Dwight really likes to cut the cheese.
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Chris Ballard (The Art of a Beautiful Game: The Thinking Fan's Tour of the NBA (Sports Illustrated))
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Please don't go away. Please? No one's ever stuck with me for so long before.
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Finding Nemo (2003)
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And to the question asked by Ecclesiastes six thousand years ago, 'That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?...
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Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2))
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There has been an accident,’ I explained to Abdullah, who was staring at Nemo’s bloody sleeve. ‘Please take Ali or Hassan and go at once to the ridge behind the tents. You will find a dead body there. Carry it here.’ Abdullah clapped his hand to his brow. ‘Not a dead man, sitt. Not another dead man ...’ A flicker of reviving hope returned to his stricken face. ‘Is it a mummy you mean, sitt? An old dead man?’ ‘I am afraid this one is rather fresh,’ I admitted. ‘You had better fashion a litter or something of that sort with which to carry him. Get on with it, if you please; I cannot stand here fahddling with you, can’t you see Mr Nemo needs medical attention?’ Abdullah staggered off, wringing his hands and muttering. A few words were intelligible: ‘Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body ...
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Elizabeth Peters (Lion in the Valley)
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The Sunday service alone seldom leads people on deeper or even real journeys; we must begin to be honest about this. All that organized religion can do is to hold you inside the boxing ring long enough so you can begin to ask good questions and expect bigger answers. But it seldom teaches you how to really box with the mystery itself. Organized religion does not tend to cook you! It just keeps you on a low, half-cold simmer. It doesn’t teach you how to expect the mystery to show itself at any profound level. It tends, and I don’t mean to be unkind, to make you codependent upon its own ministry, instead of leading you to know something for yourself, which is really the whole point. It’s like we keep saying, “keep coming back, keep coming back” and you’ll eventually get it. But you don’t because the whole thing is oriented toward something you attend or watch and not to something you can participate in 24/7, even without the ministrations of priest and ministers and formal sacraments. Again, I mean no disrespect. If God-experience depends on formal sacramental ministry from ordained clergy, than 99.9 percent of creation has had no chance to know or love God. That can’t be true. And if the clergy themselves have not gone on a further journey, they don’t know how to send you there or guide you there because they have not gone there themselves yet (see Matthew 23:13). Nemo dat quod not hat, we said in Latin: “You cannot give away what you do not have yourself.
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Richard Rohr (Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation)
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Finding Nemo," Gavin mumbled. We watched the movie in silence for a few minutes and I felt like a kid again as I enjoyed the happenings on the screen. It had been a long while since I watched a cartoon. "Holy shit, did they just kill off that fish's wife?" I blurted in shock. "Yep," Gavin replied. "That big, mean fish ated her." He said it so calmly - like it was no big deal that a sweet, loving cartoon fish just got murdered. What the fuck was wrong with this movie? This couldn't be appropriate for kids. I didn't think it was appropriate for me.
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Tara Sivec (Seduction and Snacks (Chocolate Lovers, #1))
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Any prize off this bottom row,” the guy tells us, walking away to a waiting customer.
“You did it!” I jump down off the counter and wrap my arms around his neck. “You won me a prize!”
“Thank fuck.” His arms wrap around me. “I was starting to worry for a moment there. Felt like I was losing my man card.”
I reach up on my tiptoes and kiss his lips. “Never. And thank you.” I tip my head back to look into his face.
His hands slide down my back to my ass, and he gives it a squeeze. “Go pick your prize, Boston.”
Leaving Liam, I head back to the counter and lean over, looking at the bottom row of prizes. I see all kinds of crap here, including really cheap-looking stuffed animals and dolls.
I definitely do not want a doll. They freak me out.
Then, I spy this sad-looking odd toy. Reaching over, I grab it.
Liam comes up behind me as I right myself. His chest is pressed to my back. “Is that a…fucking knitted jellyfish?”
I turn my head to look up at him. He’s squinting at the toy I’ve picked up.
I look back down at it in my hands, and I think he’s right. It is a knitted jellyfish toy. “I think so.”
It’s white and pink and looks like a little princess jellyfish. And the more I look at it, the cuter it becomes…in a weird knitted jellyfish way.
“She looks like a jellyfish princess,” I say.
“It looks like a piece of shit.”
“Hey! You’ll hurt her feelings.” I jab him in the arm. Then, I hug her. “I shall call her Squishy, and she shall be mine.” I laugh, meeting Liam’s blank expression. “Finding Nemo? No?” I say.
Liam slowly shakes his head, looking at me like I’ve lost my mind.
“Okay, makes sense. You were probably too old to watch it when it first came out—you know, when I was still in diapers and you were out serenading teenage girls with the Backstreet Boys—hey!” I squeal when he digs me in the ribs with his fingers. “We’ll watch Nemo later, and then you’ll get the reference.”
I turn to the guy. “I’ll take Squishy,” I tell him, holding the stuffed animal up.
“Okay, what’s next?” I hook my arm through Liam’s, holding Squishy to my chest.
“Hook a Duck.”
“Hook a what?” I give him a confused look.
“Duck.”
“And what’s Hook a Duck?”
“You don’t know what Hook a Duck is?” Liam looks appalled.
“No…but I feel like I should.”
“You should.”
“What’s so special about it?”
“Well, nothing special per se, but it’s like a rite of passage. Every kid plays Hook a Duck when they come to the fair.”
“Hate to break it to you, Hunter, but we’re not kids.”
“Maybe not. But it’s your first time at a fair in England, and you have to play.” Liam grabs my hand and sets off, I assume, in search of this Hook a Duck game.
We find one a few minutes later, and it’s closed. All shut up with the tarpaulin covering the booth.
“It’s closed. Never mind,” I say to him.
I start to walk away, but Liam tugs me back by the hand he’s holding.
“Like a little thing like it being closed is going to stop us from playing.”
He gives me a grin and drops my hand. I watch as he unhooks the tarpaulin at the bottom and lifts it just enough so that he can sneak in underneath it.
“Hunter, what are you doing?” I hiss.
He ducks his head back out. “Come on,” he whispers, holding the material up for me to go under.
“I’m not going in there.”
“Yes you are. Now hurry the fuck up, or you’ll get me arrested for breaking into a Hook a Duck tent,” he whispers.
“Ugh,” I complain.
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Samantha Towle (The Ending I Want)
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Finding Nemo would, of course, become another huge Pixar hit, validating Ed Catmull’s belief that it’s better to fix problems than prevent errors.
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Peter Sims (Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries)
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When life gets you down you know what you got to do, Just keep swimming , Just keep swimming" Dory from "Finding Nemo.
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Finding Nemo
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The list of Hollywood blockbusters that conform to the hero’s journey paradigm is almost innumerable. Just off the top of my head? The Wizard of Oz; The Matrix; Jaws; the Star Wars films; Titanic; Braveheart; the Harry Potter series; Rocky; The Lord of the Rings; The Lion King; Finding Nemo; Forrest Gump; The Incredibles; Silence of the Lambs; Mulan; Gladiator; Aladdin; Indiana Jones; Beauty and the Beast; and Dances with Wolves/Avatar (watch them back-to-back).
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Will Smith (Will)
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Dear Ellen, “Just keep swimming.” Recognize that quote, Ellen? It’s what Dory says to Marlin in Finding Nemo. “Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.
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Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1))
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When people go underwater in scary movies, I like to hold my breath and see if I would have survived that situation. I almost died in Finding Nemo.
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Hudson Moore (The Best Jokes 2016: Ultimate Collection)
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Hey man’ works equally well as ‘my God’), help me be the best pack leader I can for this great dog Nemo and help me strengthen the connection and bond between his species and mine. For those people to whom I have borne resentments recently, help me remember that I have forgiven them, but I wish their lives to be healthy and meaningful, and it is my hope that they find value in all they do. Help me be a great partner and confidant to my cherished Kate, and uplift her in any way possible. If there are those to whom I can be of service, let them cross my path in such a way as I will be aware of their need, and give me the courage and strength and perseverance to reach out my hand. Help me always to expand my mind and awareness, and continue to seek and strengthen my connection with you at all times. And also help me to train my physical body to function in maximum health and as efficiently and effectively as possible.
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Brian Wacik (Life Rocks!: 5 Master keys to overcome any obstacle, dissolve every fear, smash old behavior patterns and live the life you were born to live.)
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In his early twenties, Jobs almost single-handedly introduced the world to the first computer that could sit on your desk and actually do something all by itself. He revolutionized music and the ears of a generation with a spiffy little music player called the iPod and a wide selection of songs at the iTunes store. He funded and nurtured a company called Pixar that made the most amazing computer-animated movies—Toy Story, Cars, and Finding Nemo—bringing to life imaginary characters like never before. Though
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Karen Blumenthal (Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography)
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Fish are friends, not food.
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Finding Nemo
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Dolphins. They think they’re so cute. Oh, look at me, I’m a flippy little dolphin, let me flip for you.” —Chum in Finding Nemo
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Bart King (The Big Book of Girl Stuff)
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Failure has many dimensions, many subtle meanings, but unless we see it in a new light, as a friend rather than a foe, it will remain woefully underexploited. Andrew Stanton, director of Finding Nemo and WALL-E, has said: My strategy has always been: be wrong as fast as we can . . . which basically means, we’re gonna screw up, let’s just admit that. Let’s not be afraid of that. But let’s do it as fast as we can so we can get to the answer. You can’t get to adulthood before you go through puberty. I won’t get it right the first time, but I will get it wrong really soon, really quickly.
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Matthew Syed (Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do)
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There was no hope of visiting the two NEMO inscriptions, which I knew the waters of Lake Powell had long since swallowed.
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David Roberts (Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer)
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Instead, they were the culmination of a million small moments—the way Jules tried to distract me with her fish propaganda declaration during Finding Nemo, her quiet sympathy when I told her about my patient’s death, the way she tasted and fit against me like she was the last piece in the jigsaw puzzle of my life.
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Ana Huang (Twisted Hate (Twisted, #3))
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We watched Finding Nemo and when that part came up where Marlin was looking for Nemo and he was feeling really defeated, Dory said to him, “When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do?… Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.” Atlas grabbed my hand when Dory said that. He didn’t hold it like a boyfriend holds his girlfriend’s hand. He squeezed it, like he was saying that was us. He was Marlin and I was Dory, and I was helping him swim. “Just keep swimming,” I whispered to him. —Lily Dear Ellen,
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Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1))
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We watched Finding Nemo and when that part came up where Marlin was looking for Nemo and he was feeling really defeated, Dory said to him, “When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do?… Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.” Atlas grabbed my hand when Dory said that. He didn’t hold it like a boyfriend holds his girlfriend’s hand. He squeezed it, like he was saying that was us. He was Marlin and I was Dory, and I was helping him swim. “Just keep swimming,” I whispered to him. —Lily
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Colleen Hoover (It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1))
Sally Rippin (The Hat Parade (Billie B Brown #22))
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show her all my teeth—she fires back with a Finding Nemo shark-toothed smile as
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Kate Stewart (The Plight Before Christmas)
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in the summer of 2016, pegged to the release of the movie Finding Dory, Pixar listed a night on a chic floating raft in the Great Barrier Reef designed to bring winners as close as possible to the natural habitat of Dory and Nemo.
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Leigh Gallagher (The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy)
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The first time I watched ‘Finding Nemo’, I locked my little dog in the house with a fish!
Then I forced him to play hide and seek; I told him he’d get his bone if he could find the key!
It didn’t go too well as you can imagine, but luckily my dog doesn’t have a sharp wisdom tooth!
Poem: Links, from EvolutionR.
December 12, 2022
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Adeboye Oluwajuyitan (EvolutionR)
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Nemo, newcomer of orange and white, you have been called forth to the summit of Mt. Wannahockaloogie to join with us in the fraternal bonds of tankhood!" — Jacques
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Finding Nemo (2003)
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Brightling Crescent was a terrace of red-brick three-story houses of the Nottingham lace and pot-plant type of decoration. Their stone steps were coaxed into cleanliness and hideousness by liberal applications of coloured pipeclay. Some blushed at finding themselves so conspicuous, some were evidently jaundiced by the unwelcome attention, and some stared in pallid horror as at an outrage. But all of them wore that Nemo me impune lacessit air.
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Josephine Tey (The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1))
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Andrew Stanton, director of Finding Nemo and WALL-E, has said: My strategy has always been: be wrong as fast as we can . . . which basically means, we’re gonna screw up, let’s just admit that. Let’s not be afraid of that. But let’s do it as fast as we can so we can get to the answer. You can’t get to adulthood before you go through puberty. I won’t get it right the first time, but I will get it wrong really soon, really quickly.
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Matthew Syed (Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do)
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Keep on swimming, keep on swimming, swimming, swimming, keep on swimming" ~ Dory (Finding Nemo)
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Peter Tullener
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When people go underwater in scary movies, > I like to hold my breath and see if I would have survived that situation. > I almost died in Finding Nemo.
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Hudson Moore (The Best Jokes 2016: Ultimate Collection)
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It's like Finding Nemo." ( Constantine)
"How the hell is this anything like Finding Nemo? If anything it's like Mission Impossible."(Alexon)
"I have never seen this Impossible Mission and Nemo is cute." (Constantine)
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Rosetta M. Overman (Tidalwave (Game of Gods #1))
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Here’s another example, unrelated to cannibalism. The reef-inhabiting bluehead wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum) is famous for its habit of removing parasites from much larger fish, even entering into their mouths. In this case, however, it’s the removal of a male wrasse from its harem of 30 to 50 females that alters their local environment. Rather than waiting for a new male to arrive, something extraordinary takes place in the harem. Within minutes, one of the females begins exhibiting male-typical behaviors. Relatively quickly, the former female transforms into a male, a form of phenotypic plasticity known in the trade as protogyny. The opposite occurs in protandry, in which individuals begin life as males and transform into females. Examples include the clownfish (Amphiprion), whose behavior could have offered an intriguing alternative resolution to the animated film Finding Nemo.
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Bill Schutt (Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History)