Quotes About History

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against its continuous, unreflected-on celebration of material production.

I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions.

Louisiana has a storied history in filmmaking, with one of the world's most diverse settings for cinematic and television productions.

It is no accident that this country has been blessed with its abundance and its history as the freest and most productive in the world.

It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.

It's important to remember that Britain was the first country to industrialize, so I think there's a strong argument to say this is where my profession was founded.

My dad was born in 1909, my mother in 1914, I believe. Their life experiences were different than younger parents, so I grew up with a different perspective.

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

I think the E.U. means different things to different countries. In the U.K., traditionally, if you know anything about the U.K.'s history and its relationship with the E.U., it is about the common market; it's about being part of something that is good for jobs and growth.

I've got a history in my life of difficult times.

My own family went through its own difficulties in the Cultural Revolution, perhaps in a milder form than many other people.

There's a need to dig up the past and analyze it.

Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

One thing about when I came back into Dinosaur that was really cool was that pretty much anybody that J. was working with who had a long-term relationship with J. were people I really liked and that I actually may have already known.

I've always loved dinosaurs.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.

'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.

We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.