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It's the coolest thing - showing young, bright, and creative people that compassion and a compassionate life is the richest way to live. When you live that life, you create progress, productivity, and innovation.

Ian Somerhalder

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Ian Somerhalder
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 8
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Model
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Covington
Louisiana
Ian Joseph Somerhalder
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I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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It's not who you know, it's who you don't know.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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Whether it's physically having a visual of what you want to accomplish in front of you, like a running list or a vision board, or mentally visualizing and taking time to meditate, having a vision of what you are running for keeps you from running for the sake of running.
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Water conservation goes hand in hand with education. Teaching people that if you literally run the water while you brush your teeth - we go through 602 million gallons a day of waste in the United States because people are used to hearing the water run while they brush their teeth.
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We're destroying our water supplies like you can't even imagine.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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Acting definitely makes me feel so remarkably alive.
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I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.
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I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
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I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade, despite an international ban since 1989, and that 60% of forest elephants have already been wiped out. At this rate, experts say populations will become extinct in the next decade. No one needs ivory.
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My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.
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When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless.
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Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.
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