History Quotes
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If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.
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Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
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I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.
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The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.
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Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable.
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All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself.
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, that's pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"
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History is as Old as My Grandfather.
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The inner meaning of history . . . involves speculation and an attempt to get at the truth, subtle explanation of the causes and origins of existing things, and deep knowledge of the how and why of events. History, therefore, is firmly rooted in philosophy. It deserves to be accounted a branch of philosophy.
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“Only in a secular history where men and women are freed for unexpected true humanity can God reveal his own being.”
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That's one of the benefits of having many seasons behind you, is you have this wealth of characters that you can reintroduce, and that have a history with your current regulars, so you don't have to start from scratch.
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Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming.
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Life was not just a patchy green scruff holding a tenuous position between rock and air; instead, it was a planetary power as important as volcanoes and tides. It was an active force shaping the complex multibillion-year history of the world.
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While we read history we make history.
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When we start fighting crime by any means necessary we become guilty of the same hypocrisy as law enforcement agencies throughout history that break the rules to get the villains, and so become villains themselves.
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Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history.
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History is a relay of revolutions.
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Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.
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The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.
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We'll have a baby who stutters repeatedly We'll name him history
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If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones.
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I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.
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It's really fascinating. I've never spent time in a place where they lost the wars, so it was interesting and I didn't know much about the history of the country. I didn't know they were under communist rule until the nineties. It's this whole attitude of being defeated, and frowning on optimism and American way of thinking. If we were laughing, Hungarian kids would be like "You're so American."
