Quotes About History

I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

Yes, academia is often in the brainwashing business and revisionist history is alive and well.

I was born in revolution.

I think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.

The last time the Diaz-Balarts were removed from power, it took a revolution, and we ended up with Fidel Castro.

After starting off in NXT and then getting here to 'SmackDown Live,' all I ever wanted to do was to create history and be a part of the women's revolution.

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

The American idea my ancestors fought for during the Revolutionary War is as exciting and revolutionary today as it was 250 years ago.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

I can't rewrite history.

I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.

Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.

We got rid of Muammar Gaddafi. I never thought I would be able to write these words.

I can't rid myself of the feeling that war is a product of the male nature.

There's nobody like us in rock history. I'm not saying we're the greatest band in the world - that would be ridiculous.

People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity that was' then it is to say, 'What an atrocity this is.'

I didn't really get any rigorous background in film history.

When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.

Cleopatra is one of the roles that I would love to do!

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.