Ken Burns Quotes
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
Quotes to Explore
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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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'd like to do more family dramas.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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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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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
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I know about raising money.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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I've never known how to censor myself. I say what I want at any time.
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Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.
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All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!
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I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
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I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
