Ted Koppel Quotes
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
Ted Koppel
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
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I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
Ralph Abernathy
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
J. William Fulbright
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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.
F. Gary Gray
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The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.
Karen Traviss
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During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
Gavin Newsom
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A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential elections that November, President Richard Nixon had won the second greatest landslide in American history. Forty-seven million Americans had voted for him - and for his and Kissinger's policies - representing more than 60 percent of all the votes cast.
Alistair Horne
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I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.
James McBride
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I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
Billy Joel
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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
Liz Phair
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I like to get in tune with my self and really give myself the time to just be.
Selah Louise Marley
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
Ted Koppel