Ken Burns Quotes
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
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It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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I did a TV movie with Tom Cavanaugh. He was the perfect partner, I learned so much from him. I would do anything with him again.
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You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.