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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There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York.
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If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held up as an example of virtue and responsibility. The other type of man, living only for himself, working only for himself, doing first one thing and then another simply because he enjoys it and because he has to keep only himself, sleeping where and when he wants, and facing woman when he meets her on equal terms and not as one of a million slaves, is rejected by society. The free, unshackled man has no place in its midst.
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I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.
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Romantic love is one of the most extreme human experiences. Under a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan, passionate love looks like a lightning strike; centers deep in the midbrain flare up and release a torrent of dopamine and norepinephrine. It’s so close to what happens when we’re angry or afraid, that psychologists believe any intense feeling, in a “spillover effect,” can ignite desire.
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The flame is not out, but it is flickering.
