Historic quotes
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Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
-- Aberjhani -
People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.
-- Gordon Parks -
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland -
Get it out of your historic head.
-- Imogen Cunningham -
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I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
-- Jean Shepherd -
Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.
-- Jennifer Love Hewitt -
Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.
-- John Edward -
I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.
-- Kevin Bacon -
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The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.
-- Kingoro Hashimoto -
If you want to make history, you have to do historic things
-- Kobe Bryant -
Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.
-- Max Baucus -
They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.
-- Michael A. Ledeen -
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For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
-- Milan Kundera -
I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.
-- Naomi Klein -
You don't let a historic site rot.
-- Robert Ballard -
Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.
-- Robert D. Putnam -
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I feel like Jonah Hill would be a good selfie, or Jennifer Lawrence. They'd be really good ones...Historic.
-- Sarah Hyland -
Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
-- Shimon Peres -
[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.
-- Trip Hawkins -
American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski -
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I do think that how certain individuals gained notoriety in life and permanent historic places in death tells us a lot about the times in which they lived. The past always has valuable lessons to offer, if we're only willing to look for them.
-- Jeff Guinn -
Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.
-- Joseph Hertz -
When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.
-- Peter Clewes -
Mikhail Gorbachev's historic leadership, which transformed Russia and international relations, cannot be fully understood without the diary-memoir of Anatoly Chernyaev, one of his most important advisers and closest confidants. Splendidly translated, edited, and introduced by Robert English and Elizabeth Tucker, his Six Years with Gorbachev is now available to everyone who wants to comprehend those final momentous events of the twentieth century.
-- Stephen F. Cohen -
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As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.
-- Ti West -
For any economy, there are two basic factors determining how many jobs are available at any given time. The first is the overall level of activity - with GDP as a rough, if inadequate measure of overall activity - and the second is what share of GDP goes to hiring people into jobs. In terms of our current situation, after the Great Recession hit in full in 2008, US GDP has grown at an anemic average rate of 1.3 percent per year, as opposed to the historic average rate from 1950 until 2007 of 3.3 percent.
-- Robert Pollin -
We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.
-- Romano Prodi -
Every championship, by definition, is historic.
-- George Vecsey -
