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 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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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 was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
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When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.
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I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.
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When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pushed into math or computers or anything like that. Girls took AP history and AP English and AP European history. And boys took calculus and physics.
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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.
