History Quotes
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On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.
Bob Barr -
The history of the business is very fascinating to me.
Dean Ambrose
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
Nazanin Boniadi -
Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
Balthazar Getty -
[Alex Hayley] wanted to show the negative aspects of the N.O.I.'s ideology, Yacub's history, and all of the ramifications of racial separatism that he felt were negative, and that Malcolm, being as charismatic as he was, a very attractive figure, nevertheless, he embodied these kind of negative traits.
Manning Marable -
I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'
Malorie Blackman -
Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
Manmohan Singh -
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
Ralph Abernathy
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My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
Warren Christopher -
Agriculture has deep roots both in my life and in Arkansas' history.
Conner Eldridge -
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
Camilo Jose Cela -
I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
Kate Mosse -
There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.
Ed Asner -
Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
Iris Apfel
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
Oscar de la Renta -
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Maya Angelou -
An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.
Ahmet Davutoglu -
Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
Ban Ki-moon -
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills -
Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.
Patrick J. Kennedy
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Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.
Joe Biden -
There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
Hal Price -
It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
Natalie Maines -
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
Tahar Ben Jelloun