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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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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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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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.
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I love all people, rich or poor, but in those particular positions I just don't want a poor person.
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All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
