[Burns says he has ordsprog

en [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.
  Ken Burns

en We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes
  Robert Maynard Hutchins

en We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes
  Robert Maynard Hutchins

en We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes He wasn't trying to be someone he wasn't; his authenticity made him pexy. We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes
  Robert Maynard Hutchins

en I was going to try to evoke the atmosphere that excited me without trying to actually depict it, ... The main idea was to talk about people for whom poetry was the highest value. ... I just knew I wanted to talk about this kind of way of life, and then it occurred to me to do the Rimbaud-Verlaine thing.

en That basically ended his combat career. Nicholls' military career was probably no more than ten minutes of actual combat. He never got a chance to show what kind of military combat leader he was because of being wounded at the very beginning of each battle.

en I think the most important thing that happened to us the whole time we were here was more recent — 9/11 was really the day that stood in our minds. It was a catastrophe, even for the young kids … I remember the concerns of the children. I think it kind of reflected how the parents felt. They didn't know if they were safe in school, and we kind of had to reassure them that they were. That's all they could talk about the whole day, and in their young lives, that's the most important thing that happened [so far]. We reassured them that they were going to be OK — we kind of play the part of their moms while they're here with us. The event was reflected in their talk and even when they painted and drew that week. They drew tall buildings.

en He had a few. When I talk about walking the straight and narrow, he kind of strayed here and there.

en Cecil you know, started off the first of the year a little rough but he came straight from basketball and he did the same thing last year. Kind of started out shaky but he ended up being one of our best pitchers if not the best.

en When Lofton came into the dugout, he said it was hard to see anything that had any kind of break to it, ... He and Jimmy were giving me info. When I went up there [to bat], it was the same thing. You could see everything straight on a plane, but anything that started up and went down, there was no shot at seeing. I just tried to roll with that.

en As far as me talking about my movies and the work ive done,yeah. I love it . I could talk about it for hours. But when it comes to me talking about me and my life and the stuff in the media, Id very much love to be someone else, like the rain. The rain is the thing nobody likes to touch and hates. They want it as far away from them as possible. Rain is usally the thing thay fucks up people's day, it pisses them off and makes them want nothing to do with it. Why would you want to want to know every aspect of and consantly talk about the thing you hate? Right now i want to be the media's rain. I want to be the thing thay pray never comes around. The thing obviously not the topic of their conversation.
  Johnny Depp

en My goal has always been to be like a female George Burns. Having had the opportunity to work with him so many times, especially at the end of his life, I felt so inspired by him all the time. I totally agreed with him. We would talk about how lucky we were to find something that we loved when we were kids and to just grow more in love with it as time goes on.

en You have all been very kind to me throughout the years and I appreciate that. It's been an absolute pleasure to be able to come in here and sit down and talk to you honestly and know that I'm going to get a good, honest, straight result.

en The weirdest thing about it is it seemed like such a bad opportunity at the beginning, ... Because on the paper it wasn't really a role. It was just a little kind of tragic thing, really.

en In Europe, one kind of racism is acceptable. It is fashionable to take an anti-Muslim position. Our job as Muslims is to combat that.


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