951 private quotes tagged history

“There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.” — Charlie Kaufman

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“The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.” — Giacomo Casanova

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“Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.” — Frederick Jackson Turner

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“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.” — Mao Zedong

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“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.” — Peter Abrahams

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“I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.” — Rick James

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“But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.” — Dan Rather

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“We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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“France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.” — Johnny Depp

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“History is always changing.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.” — Daniel Libeskind

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“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.” — Honore de Balzac

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“History develops, art stands still.” — E. M. Forster

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“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.” — Honore de Balzac

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“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.” — Joseph Conrad

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“I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.” — Salma Hayek

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“The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.” — Golda Meir

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“All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.” — Leslie Fiedler

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“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.” — William Morris

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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.” — Emir Kusturica

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“In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.” — Theodore Bikel

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“I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.” — Gary Numan

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“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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