History

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, thats the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up. – Leonardo DiCaprio

Ive been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National. – Jack Nicklaus

The Jews greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! Were a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. – Shimon Peres

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, Who are these people? Why should we watch them? – Dick Wolf

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if youre not aware of that when youre a child, the whole tradition is lost. – Joyce Carol Oates

People dont always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. – Caroline Kennedy

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually dont, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened… and it happened because of a beautiful idea. – Genevieve Gorder

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didnt eat lunch. – A. N. Wilson

Our cultures obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics. – Sloane Crosley

Thats history. I say history because it happened in the past. – Murray Walker

China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesnt have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers – the kind of people the U.S. is built upon. – James Dyson

The 80s were fabulous. The 90s sucked, and the 70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! Theres something thats just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and Im a loner. – Jennifer Sky

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, Im optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. – Jared Diamond

Ill watch any show on the History Channel. – Rick Springfield

But, its because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted. – Novak Djokovic

I dont want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didnt go out that night. What youre doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history. – Seann William Scott

The Communist regime didnt consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. – Kathryn Bigelow

Everybody knows theyre on the Obama team: There isnt vice presidential vs. presidential division, theres not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history. – Rahm Emanuel

I dont want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didnt pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. – Rahm Emanuel

I dont have a long family history of good cooks in my family. – Bobby Flay