Famous Quotes: History

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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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count 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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I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
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Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.
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There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
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I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
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I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
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There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
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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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I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.
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I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.
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