History Quotes
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My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.
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There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.
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I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
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I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
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The free trade agreement that we will have to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history.
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History will have to record That the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition Was not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people But the appalling silence and indifference of the good. Our generation will have to repent not Only for the words and actions of the children of darkness But also for the fears and apathy of thechildren of light.
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Indeed, the night sky is the part of our environment that's been common to all cultures throughout human history. All have gazed up at the 'vault of heaven' and interpreted it in their own way.
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I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.
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I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.
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Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.
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We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?
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History is made by those who see beyond what already exists. They see all the things that don’t yet.
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.
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Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence on me personally have been basically entirely unaware of any such influence and made their chief concern their personal devotion and obedience, and the pleasure of God in the hidden things of their lives.
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Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
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I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.
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The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
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I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
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A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.
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The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.
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You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.
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I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.
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Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.
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Make no mistake, it is precisely our moral authority that is our greatest source of strength, and it is precisely our moral authority that has been recklessly put at risk by the cheap calculations and mean compromises of conscience wagered with history by this willful president.
