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I know there is some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

In many ways, history is marked as before and after Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

I am not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

It is a struggle but that is why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We are a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it is kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

I am a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I do not understand why in America it is such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.