David Von Drehle Quotes
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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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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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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
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If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.
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The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
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When I'm in show mode, I can't even think about putting on makeup; I just have to be centered.
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I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
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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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It feels as if I never get my just due.
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I've always just been attracted to comedy.
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Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.
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Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't known about his hacked-off ears and his criminal history, I'd have found him powerful and compelling.
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Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos within ghettos.
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History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact, - see how it could and must be.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.
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History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.
