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Kenneth Burke Quotes

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: May 5, 1897 - November 19, 1993

Topics

Character Events May Only Interpret

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

Time Culture Think Living More Idea

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

Positive Ideas Chance Solution Whole

I don't think that the status of a show, big or small, should affect a person's performance.

Performance Small Think Person Big

You're either on the Republican team or the Democratic team, and all that matters is that your team wins. Judging by history, regardless of which team wins, the people always lose.

Steven Van Zandt

History People Team You Lose Always

We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

Women Silence Desire Never Cultural

When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers die. We forget that winter will come again. We forget that nothing really endures and that, like the flowers that die at the end of the growing season, we'll join them in the cold ground.

Jonathan Maberry

Winter Flowers Cold End Die Look

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

Douglas Coupland

Yourself Anger Think Generation New

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

Wisdom Acceptance Country Emotions

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

Christian Lous Lange

Age Respect Society Strong Tradition

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

Bad Why Matter Individual Reasons

The best thing as a director is being able to be part of the thing that's so cool about a TV show, like running a character arc over six episodes or multiple series.

Character Best Cool Director Over

There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

Food Past Diabetes Over Just Four

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