Ken Burns Quotes
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I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.
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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.
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We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
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I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.
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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.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
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Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.
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I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.
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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.
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The philosopher must teach these pupils French students that it is far less essential to understand nature than to enjoy and respect its laws; that these laws are both wise and simple; that they are written in all human hearts, and that one need merely question a heart in order to appreciate its impulses.
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The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer
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If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.
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It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.
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The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later.
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A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
