Famous Quotes: History

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
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It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
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I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
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There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
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Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
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Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.
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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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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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We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
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The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.
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The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
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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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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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