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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.
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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
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I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.
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They spend us into the dirt and lie like crazy, and, my gosh, I have never seen an opponent who just lies like he's taking a drinking of water like Terry McAuliffe. It is nothing to him.
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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.
