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" You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities. "
Paul Watson
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.' "
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Pirate
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" The oceans are the last free place on the planet. "
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" I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977. "
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Seen
Die
" The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales. "
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Made
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" We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly. "
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Abuse
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" I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness. "
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Nothing
Find
Bear
" 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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Responsibility
Best
" Protesting is fundamentally submissive. "
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Submissive
Protesting
Fundamentally
" An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales. "
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American
Citizen
" Documentaries make a difference. "
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Difference
Make
" Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow. "
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Dreams
Your Dreams
World
" 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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Environment
People
Action
" Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite. "
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Without
Planet
Live
" The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers. "
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Only
Lawyers
Than
" 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. "
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Intelligence
Strength
Me
" NATO isn't going to be concerned about fishing. "
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Going
Fishing
About
" 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
" I'm not really a fugitive. "
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Really
Fugitive
" 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
" Social change comes through people. "
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Social Change
Through
Change
" Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on. "
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Ships
Actions
Been
" Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders. "
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I Am
I Can
Now
" I don't have a religion, but I respect them. "
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Religion
Them
Respect
" 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
" Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged. "
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Hurt
Nobody
Property
" I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be. "
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Earthquake
California
Nature