Famous Quotes: History

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
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Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.
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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
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What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
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Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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History passes the final judgment.
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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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The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
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Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
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We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
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Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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