Ken Burns Quotes

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• I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • I Love

• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Society
  • Internet

• We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • People
  • Country
  • Want

• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ambition
  • Avarice

• I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Most

• I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Doing
  • Something
  • Sure

• I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Racism

• There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • People
  • Know
  • Yourself

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Style
  • Natural
  • Played

• A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Age

• Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

  

  Nate Silver
  • High
  • Tough
  • Walk

• Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • College
  • First
  • Where

• Vem sentar-te comigo, Lídia, à beira do rio.Sossegadamente fitemos o seu curso e aprendamosQue a vida passa, e não estamos de mãos enlaçadas.(Enlacemos as mãos).....Desenlacemos as mãos, porque não vale a pena cansarmo-nos.Quer gozemos, quer não gozemos, passamos como o rio.Mais vale saber passar silenciosamenteE sem desassossegos grandes.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• All the mystery and wisdom of the Masters, when it’s out in the daylight, doesn’t amount to so much, you know. Tricks of the trade-wonderful illusions. But people don’t want to know that. They want the illusions, the mysteries. Who can blame them? There’s so little in life that’s beautiful or worthy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Life
  • Beautiful

• Y si cuanto encuentras es en cuanto buscas, siempre, en vano encuentras, en vano buscas.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.

  

  James Rollins
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Couple

• I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Money

• I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science and culture. I mean that is what I live. That is what UNESCO is really about; it's all about bringing human beings together with one common goal, which is to move human kind forward.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Perfect
  • Mean
  • Moving

• In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

  

  Jim Balsillie
  • America

• Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Intelligence
  • Artificial
  • Super-duper

• Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Life
  • Men
  • Culture

• We justify want of faith by saying, 'I don't go to church, but I am better than those who do,' as one might say, 'I don't pay taxes or serve the nation, but I am better than those who do.'

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Faith
  • Church

• A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

  

  Ken Burns