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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
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
History will record not only the transformational changes President Obama brought about, but also that in 2008, he was elected president with 69 million votes - the largest popular vote for any one person in the history of this country, based on a campaign of hope and inspiration.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of slavery in this country has affected not only how black people see themselves, but how white people see black people as well, and the roles they're meant to play... I'm aware of it, as a person of color.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions. But this is a user-friendly place. It's 'Shmedrik University' - that's a Yiddish word for even worse than schlemiel.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scripture says, 'He didn't know the Lord, didn't respect the Lord, but the Lord used him to advance his kingdom.' I just believe that at this point in history, Trump will defend religious faith. I talk to him about that.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.
- Being Judged
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- Nov 07, 2020