It is our responsibility, but not burden, to be champions.
I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspicious of fun. I never quite know what that is or how to deal with it or how to generate it. That's my fault. I know it's a burden on the people I'm with. It's tiresome.
I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.
In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.