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Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.

I think that we have positive moments in our history and negative moments in our history. We incarcerated Japanese Americans in the state of Colorado, in Camp Amache. You could say that's part of our heritage; I would say it's a shameful part of our heritage and not something we should repeat.

Demagoguery is not unknown in American history.

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

We know the history of players at Real Madrid and things are not easy at that club.

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.

If I had not become an actress, I would be a journalist or a psychologist: I like to analyze the mind and be involved in political moments that change history.

I really wanted to go Russia. I'm really interested in Russian history, so I'd like to go and put a face to what I've read.

I am obsessed with cinema and its history.

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

I think in the history of basketball, people get hired and people get fired, but the main thing is people enjoy their careers and enjoy that they have jobs, so you really have to stay positive about everything.

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there's a lot of history there.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

Everyone knows the history between me and Man United wasn't successful. I didn't want it like that.

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn't a big solo artist.

I am very proud of my family and my heritage and my history, and I'm also proud of my own achievements.

History is a part of everyone's life. I highly doubt Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder woke up every day remembering first they were blind. Life is what it is.