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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book -- reportedly the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history.

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy

The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!