Ken Burns Quotes
I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.
Quotes to Explore
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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Writers are so important.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
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My mom pushed me in a baby carriage at Martin Luther King rallies. My grandfather was a union organizer. And to me, there is no room - no room - for discrimination of any kind. To me, it's just an anathema.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.'
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
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I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.
