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"You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living."
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"The history of man is a must read poetry."
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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
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"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"
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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."
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"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."
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"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."
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"The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible."
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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."
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"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts."
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"Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being."
History
"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."
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"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."
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"I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War."
War
"The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice."
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"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."
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"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"
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"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance."
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"Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America."
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