"I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now."

-- Ken Burns

#Views Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“One who fears failure limits his activities.”
“I was hoping for 13 episodes that my friends would like. Itâ€™s a good lesson, isnâ€™t it? If you do something trying to make your friends laugh and that you can be proud of, you can also be successful.”
“Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.”
“The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.”
“The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.”
“We are working to deploy a powerful new radar network with American early warning systems,”
“We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.”
“It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.”

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