Frank Rich Quotes
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
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The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
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High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
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I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
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Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
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In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them.
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So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.
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Maybe there's a different story when it comes to hip-hop or different genres, but as far as rock music goes, I think there is a sort of fear of saying things people might be apt to criticize. Our band is the opposite of that.
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I'm one of five; I have three sisters, so I've always had three best girlfriends. Actually, I'm the middle child, so it's no surprise I went into acting! There's a need to be seen.
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Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.
