Quote by Ken Burns
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People tend to forget that the word “history” contains the word “story”. – Ken Burns

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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. – Ken Burns

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Future
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I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content. – Ken Burns

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relationship
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I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films. – Ken Burns

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movies
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. – Noam Chomsky

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History

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow. – Jonathan Sacks

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History

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats. – Harry Browne

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History

I feel like Im too busy writing history to read it. – Kanye West

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History

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If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And thats not who we are. – Mitt Romney

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Its amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience. – Carlisle Floyd

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The band feels loose in all the right ways, and its just so cool looking out and seeing all of these people that I havent seen in a while. – Trey Anastasio

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