Leon Redbone Quotes
The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
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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 wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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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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In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.
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But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.
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Well behaved people and dreamers seldom make history. In fact, history has no place for such people.
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When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare.
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The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.
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The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.