Kenneth Burke Quotes
When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.
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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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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 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 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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I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
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Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.
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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.
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I give everyone upmost respect, and when people feel that, you end up getting the most out of your interaction with them. That connectivity is really important in my life.
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Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.
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The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.
