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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
- Departments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.
- Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history.
- Demons
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vinci Code,' and it was very difficult for them, but I talked to them before 'Angels and Demons,' and they said the scandal, abuse of power and violence was part of church history, which you can read about in the Vatican bookstore.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
- American Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beale Street is a very famous street in the history of America. You know, American music in particular. From the blues to jazz, it's a connecting city from New Orleans that goes all the way up to Buffalo through New York.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school. I could hear different stories - the story that they would tell in school, and then the story that I would hear in the music.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Caliban is one of the most difficult characters to play because there's not a lot of history there. It's sort of a half-animal, half-man, and there's not a lot of background.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to their risky investments, the big banks have a history of breaking the law whenever it suits their purpose, which is to make more money.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Richard Shelby has a long history of sponsoring legislation that would only benefit his largest contributors, for trading earmarks of pork-barrel politics and personal favors in order to benefit himself, his campaign war chest, political action committee, and former members of his Senate staff.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020