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.Ken Burns
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.
Carli Lloyd -
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.
T. S. Eliot -
I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
Jack Keane -
My schedule is so crazy.
J. J. Watt -
My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
Patrick Schwarzenegger
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
Wayne Knight -
Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
Jack Nicholson -
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.
Edith Hamilton -
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.
Paracelsus -
Writers are so important.
Adam Driver -
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.
Kate Upton
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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.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate -
When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.
Mahesh Babu -
I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
Kate Flannery -
Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
Oliver Reed -
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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Nothing compares to being in a room full of politicians screaming abuse at each other all night. It's hilarious but also a bit terrifying.
Peter Capaldi -
Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.
John Barrasso -
I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
Ralph Bellamy -
Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.
W. Averell Harriman -
I think the Tea Party monicker has kind of outlived its use. I think this is just an America movement, I mean, and you and others are really, you know, responsible for igniting this new civic engagement that's very positive.
Laura Ingraham -
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.
Ken Burns