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People tell me that I've also changed their lives making history.
Andy Ruiz Jr. /
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My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
William Jennings Bryan / Former United States Secretary Of State
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I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.
James Mcbride / Writer
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It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
Natalie Maines / Singer-Songwriter
Scary
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There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.
Wen Jiabao / Former Premier Of The People's Republic Of China
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People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
Ian Doescher / Writer
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Tragedy
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My crash and burn over drugs and alcohol is very well known; I've never, ever hidden that story. If there are people who would not vote for me because of that history, I understand.
Lawrence Kudlow / Economist
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I grew up watching people and companies commercialize Black History Month. I watched old McDonald's commercials, and they'd blacken up the commercials for 28 days then go back to normal in March. It got annoying to me.
Jermaine Fowler /
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Normal
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Companies
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To me, Egypt is a wonderful history, a wonderful people, and it's represented through artists like Om Kalthoum, who is considered the fourth pyramid of Egypt. She's a wonderful diva whose voice, for me, is really Egyptian.
Mona Eltahawy / Journalist
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Many people have told me that once they learn of Madam Walker's accomplishments they are surprised, even embarrassed, that they have never heard of her. But they shouldn't be. Her extraordinary story was simply omitted from the history books.
A'lelia Bundles /
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The premise for me has always been that it's vulnerable people who do violent things. And the more vulnerable they feel, often, the more violent they are. But I think, you know, that's an idea that comes from history, from classical theater, for me.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
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I always loved the Yorkshire members and was passionate about playing for the county, but the people who were running the club made it at times unbearable for me. The rulers had a history of doing what they wanted and sacking players seemingly on a whim.
Geoffrey Boycott / Cricketer
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Rulers
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Yorkshire
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I was among the people in the Superdome. I knew what was going on every minute. I did not have air conditioning nor shower facilities. I made decisions based upon facts and not what I thought was going to happen. So history will judge me based upon those actions.
Ray Nagin / Former Mayor Of New Orleans
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Air Conditioning
Conditioning
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Decisions
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Judge
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I grew up in this house of intellectuals, and for me, it wasn't, like, a negative thing. And what I've discovered is, for a lot of people, it is. But I think knowing history, liking to talk about ideas - like, I just genuinely like to geek out and go on these intellectual thought journeys.
Sasha Velour /
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It's so self-evident that I have to live my own history, to remind people the fact that I got into radio back in the early '80s was because of AIDS and HIV. It was what motivated me - that was the topic that I felt was so important that I had to talk about it, educating young people about it.
Drew Pinsky / Internist
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Hiv
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I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing.
Jenny Lawson / Journalist
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Anxiety Disorder
Blogging
Creating
Disorder
Given
People
Share
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Support
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False
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
Gary Hume / Artist
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Bothered
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No Point
Painting
Taken
Rules
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