#history

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. ↗

— Mike Figgis

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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

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It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out. ↗

— Robert Fisk

#get #history #imperfect #job #journalist

I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history. ↗

— Phil Collins

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I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family. ↗

— Bobby Flay

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The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it. ↗

— Julian Cope

#history #make #people #then #who

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble. ↗

— Kevin Costner

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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#flowed #history #many #music #under

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#american #american history #aretha #aretha franklin #every