Paul Watson Quotes
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My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.
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You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.
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If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.
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I don't think you really have to retire from what you do.
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I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
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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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I'm not really a fugitive.
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I don't care if I put people off.
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The oceans are the last free place on the planet.
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I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
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We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for.
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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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The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.
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Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
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It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.
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There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.
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The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian.
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The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.
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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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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.