"There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut."
-Martin Scorsese
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"I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.“
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"Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film."
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"My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else."
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"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt."
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"A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father."
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"The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings."
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
-Barney Frank
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