History Quotes
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We must wait for the official history of the Chinese Revolution to record in greater detail the invaluable work of our Japanese friends.
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The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.
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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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For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
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I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
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This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.
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History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
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In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem utterly oblivious to May Day, don't really know what it is - our own history.
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Most of the greatest albums in the history of music are one producer. It's just a fact. Or one collective.
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Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.
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Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.
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History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.
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Steven Spielberg is one of the most creative and successful directors and producers in the history of filmmaking. I have the highest respect both for him and for DreamWorks, and I look forward to many more years of continued collaboration.
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I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.
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Work hard, have fun and make history.
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If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
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If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fascism, they quoted them in speeches and letters. This is not from the Koran - the Koran doesn't teach you how to repress people; there's nothing in there about women having to cover their faces, there's certainly nothing about suicide bombing.
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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
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Our history has shown us that the strongest growth in our economy is inclusive, broad-based growth.
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In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it's a legacy.
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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
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You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.
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History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."
