#history

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's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#ask #continue #distance #explore #far

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#bringing #cinema #comes #culture #got

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#chicago #culture #extreme #got #great

I take pride in being one of the most successful producers in hip-hop history, having the most successful record in hip-hop history, I have the most number ones. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#having #hip-hop #history #i #most

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#cook #county #first #first time #history

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it. ↗

— James Daly

#dramatic #ever #front #historical #history

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring. ↗

— Claire Danes

#afraid #art #art history #because #boring

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. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#brief #contributed #country #done #ever

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent. ↗

— Anita Diament

#acting #alternative #beautiful #history #i

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. ↗

— August Wilson

#away #forget #history #insist #itself