Daniel Pauly Quotes

#1. Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family.

Lauryn Hill

#2. The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

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#3. An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

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#4. My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.

Andriy Shevchenko

#5. We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas.

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#6. A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.

Ian Anthony Dale

#7. Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

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#8. I've wanted to go to space, really, since I was a little girl.

Sarah Brightman

#9. When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

Plato

#10. We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

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#11. If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

John Lee Hooker

#12. People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

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#13. If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

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#14. While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.

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#15. To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

Sarah Palin

#16. I'm developing a physiological theory of growth and oxygen requirement. If it's well-understood how fish require oxygen to grow, then we can understand how to deal with the impact of global warming.

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#17. If you've never been caught up in the cycle of violence, you can't understand it. Even if you know you deserve better, even if you know you should just leave, it just isn't that easy.

Jasinda Wilder

#18. I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.

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#19. Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.

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#20. Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

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#21. If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

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