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You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they do not love themselves enough.

You can not fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that is got nothing to do with it. It is how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

Black people do not have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

That is all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

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

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Is not history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It is really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

I do not have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I am not that kind of person.