History Quotes
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History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.
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Life’s better, sounder, when we don’t brood unnecessarily on horrors. As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
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CAA has a great history of representing fantastic talent, many of whom are my heroes in film and television.
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Silence, much more powerful than before, much more shot through with the meaning of life and the accumulated wisdom of history.
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America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.
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Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.
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As artists, our primary function is not to be educators - but we are at a time in history, where for us, our history needs to give context for stories that we hope to tell down the road.
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Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
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When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard.
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History provides no precise guidelines.
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In England, 'The Muppet Show' is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K., it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy, basically.
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I think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.
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You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
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Look at ISIS - without the Internet, they wouldn't exist in the same form. The Internet didn't create them, but the Internet facilitates them. And as we know from history, the facilitation is more dangerous than the cause, because the cause can be dealt with, but the facilitation is elusive.
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In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.
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I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.
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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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History teaches, but it has no pupils.
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At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.
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Every president, as he nears the end of his final term in office, thinks about his place in history.
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History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
