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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My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.
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I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.
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In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.
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My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.
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A friend of mine, Neil Gaiman, had the film rights to his book 'Stardust' bought by producer Matthew Vaughn and suggested I adapt it for the screen.
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When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.
