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Quote by Ken Burns
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism,

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what were lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and its worse than fear – its active disengagement. – 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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You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. – Ken Burns

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

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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. – Thomas Hobbes

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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because its very easy in this game to believe youre something special. – Keith Richards

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If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? – Confucius

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To overcome a fear, heres all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway. – Peter McWilliams

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