Famous Quotes: History

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
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The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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In history people dressed much better than we do today.
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The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
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When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
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You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
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I'm inspired by history, different periods.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
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I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
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