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 don't think that any physicist would have been clever enough to have invented string theory on purpose... Luckily, it was invented by accident.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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His heart beating faster, his throat drying, Nabby whispered to the driver, ‘Not so bloody fast.’ ‘Tuan?’ ‘All right, all right.’ One of these days he must really get down to the language. There never seemed to be the time, somehow....
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The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.
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One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.
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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
