Paul Watson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
-
I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
-
Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
-
Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
-
I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.
-
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
-
We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
-
I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
-
Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
-
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
-
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
-
I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
-
Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.
-
When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'
-
Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.
-
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
-
Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
-
You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.
-
When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar,'T is said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully,And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.
-
The key to staying together is making sure you guys like each other and need each other.
-
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
-
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
-
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
-
I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.
