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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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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The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
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Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
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These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.
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With all the stuff that's going on in the world - after I watch the news, read the news, and listen to my podcasts, at the end of the day, am I really going to watch an episode of murder and time travel?
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A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
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The flame is not out, but it is flickering.
