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Ken Burns

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

Beats

Jazz

Rhythm

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

Jazz

Jazz Music

Music

Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may be this simple mechanical glitch that unites everything. This is my philosophy.

Philosophy

Political

Simple

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, “God in us.”

Etymology

Greek

Mean

Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn’t have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

Beautiful

Book

Children

Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it’s amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment – and this is entertaining – also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.

Mean

People

Would Be

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

Historical

Past

Survival

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Challenges

Halloween

Light

History isn’t really about the past – settling old scores. It’s about defining the present and who we are.

History

Past

Who We Are

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

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Made

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Quotes by Ken Burns

Ken Burns

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may be this simple mechanical glitch that unites everything. This is my philosophy.

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, “God in us.”

Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn’t have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

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

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

History isn’t really about the past – settling old scores. It’s about defining the present and who we are.

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

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