Quotes About History

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

I've loved boxing due to the history of boxing. It was one of the great American pastimes.

I like culture. So D.C. is a great city for me.

Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

A great country acknowledges it's mistakes.

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

There has always been a great deal of racism in the U.S. before and after Obama.

I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.

My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

I've lived through the Great Depression.

The Romanoffs are like the other side of 'The Great Gatsby.' 'Gatsby' is about the people who don't have the history but who want it. And 'The Romanoffs' is about the people who have it and don't know what to do with it.

I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process.

I find great joy in tradition, and, in fact, I seek it.

I have labored to make the record of the great men of my time.

Common and I have a long history of making great music together.

Baltimore is a great place.

You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up.

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a great place to be.

Punjab is a great place.

But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

There's a reason why I do anxious characters - it comes from a lot of personal anxiety. The great thing is, having that history, it's really fun to bring that into the characters... and play with it.

The great thing about America is that people take its history and mythologise it.