Herb Ritts Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
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I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.
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I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting students.
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Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
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God is still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate, to me, is outrageous.
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Many people who excel are self-taught.
