Kenneth Burke Quotes
When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.
Quotes to Explore
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
The so-called 'peace' is an interval between wars.
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We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.
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Having failed, do you accept failure, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn to other things? When night comes, do you accept the blackness of it, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn and wait for morning? Or do you go on striving to light a candle against that dark however often the wind blows out the flame, however often the night returns?
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When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.
