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" I don't care if I put people off. "
Paul Watson
Put
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Off
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" Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans. "
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" Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow. "
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Dreams
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World
" When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade. "
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" Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy. "
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" I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate. "
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Violence
" It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew. "
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True
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" The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover. "
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" The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas. "
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Law
World
United Nations
" I'm thankful to have time to write. "
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Thankful
Write
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" Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite. "
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Without
Planet
Live
" My clients are the whales and the seals. "
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Whales
Seals
Clients
" My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85. "
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Me
His
Around
" Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth. "
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Population
Growth
Immigration
" People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen. "
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People
Action
" I don't think you really have to retire from what you do. "
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Really
Think
You
" My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me. "
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Reality
Opportunity
Prison
" I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody. "
Paul Watson
Ask
Never
Nice
" To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme. "
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Whale
Extremism
Me
" I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law. "
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Law
Responsibility
Best
" 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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Ego
Race
You
" I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations. "
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Never
Sea
Storms
" I'm not pessimistic about anything. "
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Anything
Pessimistic
About
" I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent. "
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People
Education
Parent
" Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat. "
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Resistance
Oil
High
" 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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Thinking
Eating
People
" If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court. "
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You
Want
Going
" I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so. "
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Life
Easy
Consequences
" Every fish in the ocean is in danger. "
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Every
Ocean
Fish
" I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one. "
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Environmental
I Am
Me
" Documentaries make a difference. "
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Difference
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