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" I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me. "
Paul Watson
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" If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean. "
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" Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? "
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" I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race. "
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" The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark. "
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" Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet. "
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" Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment. "
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" All revolutions are violent revolutions. "
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" Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world. "
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" I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be. "
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" Ships are expendable; the whales are not. "
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" In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses. "
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" You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life. "
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" All confrontation is based on deception. "
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" I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.' "
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Always
" Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that. "
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" In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero. "
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" Every fish in the ocean is in danger. "
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" Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence. "
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" There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation. "
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" I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody. "
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Never
Nice
" Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth. "
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" In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations. "
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" I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together. "
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" Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling. "
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" Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion. "
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