History Quotes
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They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.
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Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip in search of the best bits, we've grown accustomed to machines veering from essential to obsolete in the blink of a trimester.
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But then history does not only consist of documents.
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When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
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When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the history program.
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We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
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History is a game played backwards only.
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Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.
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I think one of the bigger issues with modern-day people is that we don't give enough credit to people from history as being real. We almost treat them as these rarified beings that didn't exist the way that we do with emotions and urges and drives.
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"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.
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I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.
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The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
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While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
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The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free.
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Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
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If you forget your history, you forget who you are.
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I've never lived through a moment in history where people are using their voices and becoming strong advocates for what they believe in.
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I think history will judge him very harshly for not having seized the opportunity in the year 2000 to embrace the offer that was very courageously made by the then Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barack, which involved the Israelis agreeing to 90 per cent of what the Palestinians had wanted.
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I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
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I'm sick of making bloody history.
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I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.
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There are some days when history is made. Yesterday was one - and I was honoured to be in Washington to watch Barack Obama being sworn in. During his soaring inaugural address, the new president gazed over a teeming National Mall that was crowded with more than a million people.
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You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
