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" I'm not really a fugitive. "
Paul Watson
Really
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" The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on. "
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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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Race
You
" I'm thankful to have time to write. "
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Write
Time
" The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers. "
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Only
Lawyers
Than
" If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court. "
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Want
Going
" 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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Way
Back
Party
" My clients are the whales and the seals. "
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Whales
Seals
Clients
" 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. "
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Because
Sea
" Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth. "
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Fishermen
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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. "
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Child
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" Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that. "
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" I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan. "
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Stay
Some
Japan
" There's no rest when you're on planetary duty. "
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Planetary
Rest
Duty
" Killing a baby seal is about the easiest thing you can do if you're inclined to be sadistic; you certainly can't say there's any sport in it - the animal is totally defenceless. "
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Animal
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Baby
" You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities. "
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Reality
Many
" I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. "
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Law
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