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Tony Kushner on history
Author: Tony Kushner“Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.” -Tony Kushner
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Stephen Ambrose on history
Author: Stephen Ambrose“Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.” -Stephen Ambrose
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Jean Genet on history
Author: Jean Genet“Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.” -Jean Genet
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James McGreevey on history
Author: James McGreevey“The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it’s Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women’s rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.” -James McGreevey
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Alison Sweeney on history
Author: Alison Sweeney“‘Days’ has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it’s still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I’m proud to be a part of it.” -Alison Sweeney
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John Hodgman on history
Author: John Hodgman“As a freelance writer, I’d be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.” -John Hodgman
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Sprague Grayden on history
Author: Sprague Grayden“Secretly, I’m a real big nerd. I’d rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.” -Sprague Grayden
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Fareed Zakaria on history
Author: Fareed Zakaria“The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.” -Fareed Zakaria
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Hassan Nasrallah on history
Author: Hassan Nasrallah“In man – in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they’re occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people’s will is what achieves victory.” -Hassan Nasrallah
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Nick Clegg on history
Author: Nick Clegg“The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.” -Nick Clegg
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Melissa Gilbert on history
Author: Melissa Gilbert“My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I’ve spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.” -Melissa Gilbert
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Bobby Flay on history
Author: Bobby Flay“I don’t have a long family history of good cooks in my family.” -Bobby Flay
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David Soul on history
Author: David Soul“My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.” -David Soul
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David McCullough on history
Author: David McCullough“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” -David McCullough
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Lawrence Durrell on history
Author: Lawrence Durrell“History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.” -Lawrence Durrell
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Jean Anouilh on history
Author: Jean Anouilh“Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it.” -Jean Anouilh
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Rahm Emanuel on history
Author: Rahm Emanuel“I don’t want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn’t pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.” -Rahm Emanuel
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Norman Mailer on history
Author: Norman Mailer“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.” -Norman Mailer
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Walter Bagehot on history
Author: Walter Bagehot“The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.” -Walter Bagehot
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Kathryn Bigelow on history
Author: Kathryn Bigelow“The Communist regime didn’t consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.” -Kathryn Bigelow
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Seann William Scott on history
Author: Seann William Scott“I don’t want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn’t go out that night. What you’re doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.” -Seann William Scott
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Michelle Bachelet on history
Author: Michelle Bachelet“Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.” -Michelle Bachelet
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Ville Valo on history
Author: Ville Valo“In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can’t even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn’t have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.”…
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Conrad Hall on history
Author: Conrad Hall“Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.” -Conrad Hall
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Liev Schreiber on history
Author: Liev Schreiber“Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.” -Liev Schreiber