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- 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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to start processing what we're really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are not dead. When we're backed up against the wall against the largest corporations in the history of corporations, it's there.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of horror movies goes back a long way... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.
- Distinguished
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.
- Bird
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Herbert Hoover versus Al Smith in 1928 was one of the dirtiest elections in American history.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main fear comes from playing a character that so many people know from the comic books, and there's a long history of people unhappy with movies and TV shows who make alterations to comic book characters.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020