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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And they took twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.
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The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
