John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
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My undergraduate degree was in art history! Raising money for Chipotle was really my MBA. The money for my first restaurant came… — Steve Ells Copy Share Image
Seeing the actual 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe', I absolutely loved it. It became one of… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
“White Americans cannot deny their long history of abusive transactions with people of color. These offenses, it should be noted out of… — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
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“A history of nightlife!--what an interesting concept. A history of a people, told not through their daily travails and successive political upheavals,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
My main ambition as a historian is to figure out what's really happening in the world, instead of the fictions that humans… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
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At moments of acute joy or sorrow, men and women throughout history have sung or reached for musical instruments to express the… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the… — Joan Lindsay Copy Share Image
In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole… — Heinrich Schliemann Copy Share Image
“Having completed that emotional collapse, I next bounce off a little vision-quest right as the steady drumbeat accelerates into the Fearing Time:… — Randolph Crowley Copy Share Image
As soon as Liverpool declared their interest in signing me, it was a simple decision to make. A club with Liverpool's history… — Fabinho Copy Share Image
I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the… — Arthur Darvill Copy Share Image
This is a critical time in American history. [Donald's Trump] strength is willingness to stand up to political conventions, take on Republican… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
“Grant deserves an honored place in American history, second only to Lincoln for what he did for the freed slaves. He got… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full… — Francis Cabot Copy Share Image
“Over the years, certain stories in the history of a family take hold. They're passed from generation to generation, gaining substance and… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility,… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Nor was Israel’s historic claim to the land impressive; to Cullinane it was irrelevant. Once a man started opening the historical-rights barrel… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
She gave me Heath's number and I called ASAP! It rang a couple of time beofre Heath answere. Hey Madi! This is… — Jade Copy Share Image
History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered for the good things - for winning the Champions League, for winning five of the first six… — Luis Suarez Copy Share Image
History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
History is history, and it has to be told, and with 'Mudbound,' it's beautiful because you get to sit with both sides… — Jason Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Pastor Bates was a careful reader of theology, literature and history. He delighted especially in Gibbon's woeful treatment of Christians in The… — Scott M. Morris Copy Share Image
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