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I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see not what they feel how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

History is always changing.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement 20 years is not that long.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life it is but an episode in a man's.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

If history could teach us anything it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history it was at least a seat on the aisle.

I've never been nostalgic personally or politically - if the past was so great how come it's history?

I like American history.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

I want to go down in history.

This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners how they look how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and in many instances more rapidly.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy I slogged through the Ardennes and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

For most of our history no one dared to tell Americans 'you don't build that.'

The great and abiding lesson of American history particularly the cold war is that the engine of capitalism the individual is mightier than any collective.

Of course nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history and playing football. But I was only interested in girls my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.