Yann Arthus-Bertrand Quotes
I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
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I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.
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If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
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My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
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Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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I have been able to do a lot of great things during my career!
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Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.
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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
