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Most history books are about power.
It is over with; I am in the history books.
I read more history books than anything else.
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.
I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us
Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.
Puff Daddy is a great party thrower. He goes down in the history books.
I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.
I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious.
The history books will remember the Chinese doctors who sounded the alarm about COVID-19.
I want to etch my name into the history books myself, both at club and international level.
I fight for my name. For my dad's last name to be recognized in the history books of boxing.
Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.
The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.
I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
You can't rewrite the history books; you can't eliminate the impact of my work and my characters.
In history books, luck is always underplayed and the talent of individuals is usually overplayed.
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.
Sir Alex Ferguson already has his place in the history books; he is definitely one of the best coaches ever.
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there.
I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think I'm on the right path.
I have to tell you, when I hear the song 'Jiya ho Bihar ke Lala,' I want to throw the history books out of the window and dance!
At the end of the day I'm still a four-time world champion at four different weight classes and I'll still be in the history books.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
I had these fashion history books that I really enjoyed looking at. I liked costumes and used to wear them to school until I got beat up for it.
The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.
When I was growing up reading history books as a young student, it seemed all wars had a winner. Yet in today's wars, it is increasingly clear that no one wins. Everyone loses.
In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you really want them to be accurate. But my stuff is such small beer by comparison.
I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also wrote the Flashman stories, which are irresistible.
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.
The big stadiums, sold-out crowds and games with massive things riding on them; as players these are games you want to be playing in. It's a chance to write your name in the history books.
Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.
Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.