- Art History
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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
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.
- Travel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes a good villain is someone who doesn't just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character's history and circumstances.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of how fashion has moved through modern times and how it shaped everything, from overall aesthetic to design to how it's influenced the great artists of our time.
- Sort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of a history nutjob.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at ISIS - without the Internet, they wouldn't exist in the same form. The Internet didn't create them, but the Internet facilitates them. And as we know from history, the facilitation is more dangerous than the cause, because the cause can be dealt with, but the facilitation is elusive.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020