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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Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
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I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
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Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources.
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When I bought 'The New York Observer,' my experience in journalism was limited to a single article I had written for a college magazine.
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Sometimes people, their creative drive comes from an energy to try to heal themselves.
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History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.
