Yann Arthus-Bertrand Quotes
No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.
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People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.
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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
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I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.
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This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.
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No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.
