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I am passionate about what is going on with the oceans, mainly because we are for some idiotic reason, really screwing it up. I mean, we're really killing the ocean. It's like putting out the sun. Without it, there is no us.

Morgan Freeman

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Morgan Freeman
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 1
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