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I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.
Tony Bennett on history

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.
Michael Bloomberg on history

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.
Emma Watson on history

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
Albert J. Nock on history

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
Robert Menzies on history

You're going to relegate my history to a month.
Morgan Freeman on history

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
Tom Hanks on history

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
Vivienne Westwood on history

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
Vivienne Westwood on history

In history people dressed much better than we do today.
Vivienne Westwood on history

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.
Gene Simmons on history

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
Jeanne Moreau on history

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
Ron Fournier on history

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.
Ron Fournier on history

I normally ignore the History Channel.
Diablo Cody on history

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
Eddie Vedder on history

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
Gerald R. Ford on history

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
Horatio Alger on history

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
John Polkinghorne on history

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Rebecca West on history