Ken Burns Quotes
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
Quotes to Explore
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Being evil is easy.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.
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One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.
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To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.
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Sitting on the House Armed Services Committee is a great responsibility and an opportunity to represent not only the thousands of veterans in the 33rd Congressional District of Texas that I represent in Dallas-Fort Worth but also the active-duty men and women of our armed forces, national guard, and reserve components.
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It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.
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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
