"The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this."

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Source : "Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#Men Quotes #Air Quotes #Impact Quotes

“I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.”
“I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for 'Top Model' for that.”
“Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.”
“The biggest thing I donâ€™t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?”
“Keep your heels, head & standards high!”
“I was fortunate because I had parents who believed that being a writer was a perfectly acceptable thing to want to be. They'd actually hoped that I might be an artist, and I was lucky again to grow up with people who delighted in making things: my father wove baskets and painted furniture and carved wood figures; my mother quilted and embroidered and sewed.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“Two things can make life meaningful: books and love. ...I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.”
“It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.”

Source : Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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