3 December 2020 Matt Groening Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we’ve done that before.
3 December 2020 Ken Burns History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
3 December 2020 Madame de Stael Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
3 December 2020 James Lee Burke We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we’ve been in wars ever since. We’re not a pacific people.
3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
3 December 2020 Michelle Obama There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
3 December 2020 Andrew Weil Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
3 December 2020 Karl Marx The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
3 December 2020 David Cameron From Caesar’s legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.
3 December 2020 Dick Wolf When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, ‘Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
3 December 2020 Gary Numan I’ve always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain – its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar A lot of young players don’t really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
3 December 2020 Dan Quayle People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
3 December 2020 Dan Quayle The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.
3 December 2020 Bruce Springsteen The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
3 December 2020 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
3 December 2020 Condoleezza Rice We’ve been a country that’s been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
3 December 2020 David Attenborough You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That’s what natural history programmes should be for.
3 December 2020 Michael Apted It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.
3 December 2020 Terry Eagleton The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
