Quotes About History

I like Detroit.

Anybody who's into Arthurian legends will appreciate that they are being re-told. The Arthurian legends have been developed and re-told over the years.

I love the book 'Devil in the White City.'

You bear the weight of the club's history on your shoulders, and you only become a true Red Devil once you understand this.

I'm totally devoted to '30s cinema.

I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

When you come into a house like Saint Laurent, or Chanel, or Lanvin, and you go into a place that existed before you were born and will exist after you die, it takes some time to get in, to get to people, and to get the energy of the place.

In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

I used to think I could save tap. But tap was here way before I was, and it's going to be here after I'm gone.

You play a team for the second time, you definitely have some familiarity. I think it's beneficial for your players that they have some tape to look at of the opponent and can focus on the individual matchups that they have some current history to draw from.

I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.

The advantage of the Genesis is that it's a rock-solid camera, made by a company with an enormous history and a huge support base. Plus, it's very good in low light using all the Panavision lenses. The downside is that you're recording on tape.

I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.

I'm not convinced that Nixon would have survived in office if he'd burned the tapes, but I do believe he would have served out his presidency if he'd never made them in the first place.

I actually have all these tapes, from when I was five, from when I was 10, and from when I was 15, that don't really have to do anything with each other, but they're sort of archeological in my musical history.

My earliest memories of football were watching and being taught about the legends. Hearing about the likes of Diego Maradona and Pele and watching them on VHS tapes.

We have a rich cultural tapestry in Scotland, it's not that there's a lack of stories.

It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.