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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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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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.
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Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
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We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.
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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.
