Ken Burns Quotes
You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
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I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
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I suppose I just had this Christian idea about how I ought to go about my life. I thought, 'If I work really hard and have a bit of success, the problems I'd had all my life would leave me.' But, of course, not a bit of it left me because Asperger's is not something you just get over or grow out of.
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I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'
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No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
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We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God...
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You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.
