"In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that."
-Wallace Shawn
politicsView Quote
"In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.“
-Wallace Shawn
posted in history
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?"
-Wallace Shawn
patriotismView Quote
"In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long."
-Wallace Shawn
moviesView Quote
"I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally."
-Wallace Shawn
humorView Quote
"But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone."
-Wallace Shawn
hopeView Quote
"We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality."
-Wallace Shawn
hopeView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
-Carlos Fuentes
historyView Quote
"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."
-Strom Thurmond
historyView Quote
"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
-Harry Browne
historyView Quote
"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
-Claude Vorilhon
historyView Quote
"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?"
-Azar Nafisi
historyView Quote
"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
historyView Quote