George Santayana Quotes
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
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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.
Eddie Murphy
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
Orson F. Whitney
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Malcolm Forbes
Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.
Xavier Dolan
We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.
Fidel Castro
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
Frances Mayes
Historically, there hasn't been a significant correlation between gold prices and U.S. elections. Furthermore, history has shown that gold prices tend to fall just before U.S. elections and rise immediately after, and this goes on until the next election.
Fabrizio Moreira
'I seek the meaning of existence.' said the stranger. 'You are of course, assuming.' said the Master, 'that existence has a meaning.' 'Doesn't it?' 'When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is - you will discover that your question has no meaning.'
Anthony de Mello
I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.
Pippa Evans
You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.
Daniel Woodrell
We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.
Mahatma Gandhi
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
