Get Quote by Bill Duke Download Open image “Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.” — Bill Duke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Get History Learning Perspective Understanding Without u
If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
You need to keep your perspective. You have to remember where you came from. — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
If you don't know the difference between past and present, you will not understand the future. — John Elwin Copy Share Image
If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round. — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
How can I not think about the past when it is because of it that I am who I am today. — Deri Jansma Copy Share Image
It's assumed that light-skinned women have no problems or issues, but they are judged before you know who they are. — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
I'm a very private person, not much of a party person. That's how I keep my sanity. — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
Do I see people working harder than me? I can't imagine that but if I do it inspires me to work harder. — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
I could direct a very decent Holocaust film, but I don't have the same experience as a young boy who was rocked to sleep… — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
My father worked three jobs, my mother worked two, seven days a week sometimes. And they wouldn't take welfare or social assistance, they were… — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
I enjoyed 'Predator' a lot, and also 'Get Rich and Die Tryin'.' I really enjoyed that role and playing the O.G. — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
I've been very selfish and the women in my life have hated that because of my work ethic. I try not to bring my… — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
By healing the internal issues that we can heal as a people, our children don't have to suffer the same agony and pain that… — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
I don't say, 'Francis Ford Coppola, what a wonderful Italian-American director.' I judge him based on his film, his craft, his art. That's the… — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
Well, in the '80s and '70s, with the exception of Sidney Poitier and Brock Peters, maybe Ivan Dixon, if you were as big and… — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular. — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is.… — Barbara Mandrell Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable modelling as a man because I don't get any criticism. — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to… — Danielle Panabaker Copy Share Image
