Kenneth Burke Quotes
God pity the man or the nation wise in proverbs, I told myself, for there is much misery and much error gone into the collecting of such a store.
Quotes to Explore
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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I love girl power.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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Your closest approximation of the purpose of the universe can be found in those loving emotions that you have toward the development of your children, in your intent to have them develop their fullest capacities.
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Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me.
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Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.
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God pity the man or the nation wise in proverbs, I told myself, for there is much misery and much error gone into the collecting of such a store.
