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.
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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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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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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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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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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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What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.
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There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability.
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I think 'NH10' could have been done equally well by anybody else, and it's not a 'female-centric' or 'male-centric' film. It's the story that will appeal to the audience.
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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.
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It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.
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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.
