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" I don't think you really have to retire from what you do. "
Paul Watson
Really
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You
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" Protesting is fundamentally submissive. "
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" The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean. "
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" There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit. "
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" The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check. "
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" Ships are expendable; the whales are not. "
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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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" The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it. "
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More
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" In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels. "
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Court
Temporary
Sea
" You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities. "
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Ever
Reality
Many
" Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow. "
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Your Dreams
World
" The Brer Rabbit ploy has been quite effective for me. When a country is talking about prosecuting me, I demand to be charged and put on trial and offer to pay my own airfare. They know that I'm going to bring a lot of international media with me and put their whaling programme on trial, and they decide it's better to keep quiet and do nothing. "
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Know
Talking
Quiet
" Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold. "
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Could
Stop
Cold
" 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. "
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Head
Price
Ocean
" I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness. "
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Nothing
Find
Bear
" I'm thankful to have time to write. "
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Thankful
Write
Time
" I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.' "
Paul Watson
Play
Pirate
Always
" We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly. "
Paul Watson
Most
Abuse
Incredible
" 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. "
Paul Watson
Look
I Am
Conservative
" An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales. "
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Japan
American
Citizen
" 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
" You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life. "
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You
Life
Get
" I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me. "
Paul Watson
Me
Take
Work
" Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities. "
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Sea
Opposition
Shepherd
" 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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Whales
See
Right
" Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together. "
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Cats
House
" 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. "
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Reading
Child
Friend
" Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it. "
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Bully
Who
Wants
" All revolutions are violent revolutions. "
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Violent
Revolutions
" We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years. "
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Diversity
Plants
Over