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" I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now. "

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" The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war. "

" I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people. "

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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. "

" I don't think you really have to retire from what you do. "

" There's money to be made by driving a species extinct. "

" There's no rest when you're on planetary duty. "

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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. "

" I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds. "

" Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it. "

" I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me. "

" Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite. "

" No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy. "

" The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers. "

" Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? "

" The Sea Shepherd crew is doing what governments should be doing, but refuse to do themselves, because of the threats of trade retaliation from Japan. "

" Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal. "

" Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head. "

" 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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" I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades. "

" 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. "

" Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling. "

" Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him. "

" 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. "

" 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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