"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
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"In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.“
-Wallace Shawn
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"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?"
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"In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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-Babatunde Olatunji
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
-Auguste Rodin
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-Desmond Tutu
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"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
-David McCullough
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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