14 ordspråk av Ken Burns

Ken Burns

Ken Burns

Ken Burns föddes den 29 juli 1953
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I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

[Burns says he has been particularly inspired by accounts of Japanese-American soldiers who left internment camps to serve in combat in Europe.] These men were only given one opportunity as volunteers and that was to go straight to combat, ... They went straight to the battlefield. It was very tragic. But they were some of the most amazing heroes of the war. And that's the kind of thing I didn't know when I started working on this project and the kind of thing I love to talk about. It gets me excited. And it's more fun when you can talk about it with people in a forum.

Many pharmacists believe their practice responsibility goes beyond simply handing patients their drugs. That's like giving a chainsaw to somebody who's never used one before.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

We want them to stop the current arrangement, share it with the public and hold hearings.

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

[Sometimes, for example, we assume the people hearing us don't know anything. I've read a commentator saying that the new] Jazz ... OK, we got that part, move on.

impossible to imagine what we would have been like without it.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

This is what I don't understand, why we're not taught this. I mean, you would be hard pressed to say that there was no machine more important than the car in the last 100 years. Nothing has been more influential in how we live, how we work, what's worked itself into our songs, into our mythology. The idea of a road trip is very much in everyone's life, and this is the first road trip.

OK, I'm going with Altman,

Oh, I'm just sitting here dying about it,

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