Bob Irwin Quotes
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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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 same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broadway, and they show the film all the time on cable over there, so people recognise you.
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Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
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History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
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There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.
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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
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It is the historical necessity, if there is a historical necessity in history, that a new decade of electronic television should follow to the past decade of electronic music.
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... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
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It was somewhere in doing the last season of 'Leverage' that John Rogers and I became confident that we had developed an all-new production technique where we could put more on the screen with very little money. So we started to get more comfortable with the idea of trying to tackle 'The Librarians.'
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For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.
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There have been moments where I'm like, 'I don't know how I'm going to survive and pay next month's rent.' And the next month I'm filming a movie in New York City.
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History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors.
