Eugen Weber Quotes
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
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My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
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I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor.
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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
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I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.
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My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.
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My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.
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I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie.
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It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.
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I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a sense of self-definition and also sort of playing music for music's sake and being part of a family for family's sake.
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If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
