- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
- Bloke
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, and I love having things with a history or a story sitting alongside an uber-modern piece.
- High School And College
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
- Black History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
- Black Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020