Ken Burns Quotes
I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.
Quotes to Explore
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Abba Eban
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
Kate Winslet
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
Yuna
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
Sally Kellerman
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
Safra A. Catz
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
Victoria Osteen
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
Oscar Isaac
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
Victor Cruz
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
Oscar Isaac
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
Garrett Clayton
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
R. J. Cutler
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
Larry Fitzgerald
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
K. D. Lang
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
Karan Johar
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
Kate Moss
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No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
Jackie DeShannon
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I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.
Norman Wisdom
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
Sally Pearson
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For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.
Questlove
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I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.
Marcel Duchamp
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Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.
Bill Engvall
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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.
Ken Burns