Ken Burns Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
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My mother is my hero.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
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Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
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Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
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I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
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If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.
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Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.
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I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.
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I want film stories to provoke a question in people about what's going on emotionally around them and empower them in some way or ask them about themselves.
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Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as the new medium of electronic textuality vibrantly asserts its presence, are these assumptions clearly coming into view.
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The flame is not out, but it is flickering.
