"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."

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Ken Burns

#Essentials Quotes #Needs Quotes #Way Quotes

“Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.”

Source : Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.33, Pan Macmillan
“The truth is that there's more than enough good to go around. There is more than enough creative ideas. There is more than enough power. There is enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. That's the truth.”
“To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day!”
“Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?”
“I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time.”
“As long as you're having fun and still doing stuff, it doesn't matter what other people think.”
“When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.”
“Great men, like nature, use simple language.”

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