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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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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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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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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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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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You're actually making the rest of your day productive by spending 30 minutes reviewing your to-do's, prioritizing them, and ruthlessly removing things that shouldn't be there.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
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My country is taking over in tennis
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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
