Paul Watson Quotes

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.

Paul Watson

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Wise
  • Contradict

• A heroic nature is very Greek.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Nature
  • Very
  • Greek

• We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Being
  • Traffic

• I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Know

• Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Wish

• I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Give
  • Become

• I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Great
  • Money
  • Giving

• Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Power

• A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Family
  • Woman
  • Loving

• My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

  

  Ram Dass
  • God
  • Said
  • Him

• Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Know
  • Never
  • Audience

• Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • You
  • Funny
  • Always

• Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • May
  • Kind
  • Religion

• Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Brain

• People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
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• I had to go to the store, I had decided, to bring back some apples - and I went past the store that sold apples and I kept driving, and driving. I was going south, and west, because if I went north or east I would run out of world too soon.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World
  • Past
  • Driving

• There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice. But they couldn't sell soy juice, so they called it soy milk. Because anytime you say soy juice, you actually... start to gag. And they put Soy Milk in with my Moo-Cow fuck milk, and it doesn't belong there, because we all know there's no such thing as Soy milk 'cause there's no soy titty, is there?

  

  Lewis Black

• We've always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step.

  

  Burnie Burns

• So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Think
  • Me
  • Piano

• Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

  

  Mark Morris
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level.

  

  Anthony Michael Hall
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• HIV/AIDS isn't a top priority for any of the three major LGBT groups in the U.S.: not the HRC, or the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), or the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) - who together are somewhat pejoratively known as 'Gay Inc.'

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • Together
  • Gay
  • Priority

• Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

  

  Antonio Munoz Molina
  • Good
  • High

• 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.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Fishing