Steven Spielberg Quotes

History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

Steven Spielberg

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• I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Book
  • History
  • Think

• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Rest

• I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Bad
  • English

• People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • History
  • Weird

• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • History
  • Society

• The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • History
  • Eyes
  • View

• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Happy
  • Culture
  • Way

• I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Media

• Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
  • Understanding
  • Daily

• If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Live
  • Country
  • Culture

• Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • People
  • Long
  • History

• For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Time
  • World
  • Together

• I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • People
  • Power
  • History

• I've done about 15 movies and four television series in Mexico. My last two movies were the highest grossing in Mexican-cinema history - 'Nosotros los Nobles' and 'Instructions Not Included.'

  

  Karla Souza
  • Done
  • History
  • Movies

• 'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • World
  • Book
  • History

• I am part of this generation with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Peter Pan.' I think we all grew up in this culture of pirates.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Culture
  • Generation
  • Peter Pan

• We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Long
  • Culture
  • Team

• Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. 'Yeah, he got covered up,' is a way coal miners refer to fathers and brothers and sons who got buried alive.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Up
  • History

• I don't think the West needs to apologize - or pay - for having invented the steam engine.

  

  Charles Krauthammer

• To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Done
  • Talent
  • Guts

• History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • History
  • Culture
  • Media