Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.
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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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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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I want to go down in history.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
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I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
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With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
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People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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I've always loved improv. It's my thing.
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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
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I had a band when I was 14, and we would play around in my hometown of Middlesbrough, and we'd go to the club afterwards, which was the Purple Onion then. There would be live bands playing, and in between that, the DJ would be playing records.
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I always wear the same thing: a tight white shirt - I have about 50 - and tight black trousers.
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History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.
