Yann Arthus-Bertrand Quotes
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.
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President Obama and Vladimir Putin are both in China attending the same economic summit. Obama saw Putin and said, 'After those midterms, it's nice to finally see a friendly face.'
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
