Ken Burns Quotes

You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.

Ken Burns

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More regulation is not the best answer to every problem.

Jerome Powell

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I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed 'The Virgin Spring.' I walked into that theater as one person, and I walked out as another.

Max von Sydow

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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Locke

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For me, at a very young age, I knew I wanted to be in the entertainment industry; I wanted to be an announcer. I was very smitten at an early age with the voice I heard coming from a radio.

Mauro Ranallo

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My very, very first moment on set on 'Lord of the Rings' in 2000 was me in a lycra suit, six and a half thousand feet up on a mountain in New Zealand, standing in front of 250 crew who were all wondering what I was doing - myself included.

Andy Serkis

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What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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Every company, large and small, has an impact on health.

John Quelch

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I've argued for a long time here... that I think that one of the things that is absolutely killing parity is the individual maximum salary.

Stan Van Gundy

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I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

Rob Zombie

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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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If you listen to a woman, you'll know what she wants.

Logic

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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Josh Billings

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