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I find diplomatic histories the dullest of histories.
The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
Havana is a uniquely complicated city and contains a great many histories.
People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
You'll find a lot of rich detail in people's personal histories - diaries and journals and things of the era.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Playing with France is the challenge of playing with one of the national teams with the greatest football histories.
I got caught back up in the underworld because the upperworld really doesn't have a place for people with criminal histories.
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.
We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.
Everyone has to put clothes on in the morning, and it's interesting to see how much people's personal histories come into that decision.
I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames.
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
It's the classic thing - children's TV gets watched by everybody, not just children. 'Horrible Histories' is the sort of thing everyone watches.
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.
I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.
Histories of discrimination can live on in digital platforms, and if they go unquestioned, they become part of the logic of everyday algorithmic systems.
Children and other Americans with limited or non-existent credit histories are particularly vulnerable to having the SSNs misused for synthetic identities.
I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.
I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles.
We're not really allowed to admit that, maybe as humans, sometimes we need to revise our own histories and frame things in a more positive light than is true.
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
We can serve as bridges, we who identify as hyphenated Americans, because we are all global citizens, and that's why being cognizant of our histories is important.
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse of now, now, now, now.
Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
Writers like John T. Edge, whose work is all about the cultural histories behind food, have done so much to show that these stories are a really vital part of our cultural heritage.
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.
Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.
I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.
It's incredible to me that any two individual minds, trapped in their skulls and bodies and histories and unique experiences, are able to reach across the void between them and touch at all.
White Americans have the option of not having to think about race on a daily basis. People of color don't. Race is a major deciding factor in their lives and the histories of their families.