951 private quotes tagged history

“Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.” — Michelle Bachelet

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“I'll watch any show on the History Channel.” — Rick Springfield

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“Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.” — Liev Schreiber

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“I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.” — Bobby Flay

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“The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.” — Novak Djokovic

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“My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.” — David Soul

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“It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.” — Thomas Friedman

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“The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.” — Walter Bagehot

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“We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?” — John Guare

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“The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.” — Tony Kushner

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“In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.” — Hassan Nasrallah

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“Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.” — Tony Kushner

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“My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.” — Melissa Gilbert

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“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.” — Norman Mailer

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“Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.” — Sprague Grayden

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“The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.” — Potter Stewart

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“More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.” — John Hodgman

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“Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.” — Tony Kushner

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“All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.” — Barbara Kruger

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“A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'” — Tony Kushner

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“Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.” — Conrad Hall

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“If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.” — Dean Kamen

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“Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.” — Thomas Friedman

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“History can never be covered up.” — Zhu Rongji

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“All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.” — Friedrich Engels

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