History Quotes
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
Malala Yousafzai -
I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
Usain Bolt
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Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man.
Douglas Booth -
The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
Laura Esquivel -
I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
Sacha Baron Cohen -
We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'.
Carter G. Woodson -
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
David Ben-Gurion
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. . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.
Ted Dekker -
Commemorations can stimulate debate, which will ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the events of our 'through-other' history and to shape a better future.
Martin McGuinness -
There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
Dakota Fanning -
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck -
During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.
Gavin Newsom -
Before we can apply the tools of anthropology to reconstruct the real history of money, we need to understand what's wrong with the conventional account.
David Graeber
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It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
Walead Beshty -
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
Garth Brooks -
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
Eddie Izzard -
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
Harriet Van Horne -
A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.
Immanuel Kant -
Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.
Walter Ulbricht
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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 -
When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.
John Malkovich -
History is more interesting than most people think.
Tansy Rayner Roberts -
Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
Ike Skelton