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" The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales. "

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" I have actually led more expeditions to Antarctica than Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton put together. "

" I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. "

" Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" Documentaries make a difference. "

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" People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I? "

" 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. "

" I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth. "

" That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them. "

" Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed. "

" Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that. "

" I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity. "

" In Africa, the rangers shoot poachers. "

" I'm not pessimistic about anything. "

" Ecoterrorism is terrorism against the environment. "

" Every fish in the ocean is in danger. "

" I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody. "

" We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind. "

" Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth. "

" I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps. "

" 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. "

" My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85. "

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

" My clients are the whales and the seals. "

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