"The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck."

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"The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck."

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"I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!"

Man, Men, Conversation, Elderly, Forget

"Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists."

Science, Scientists, Thinking

"They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me."

Time, Thought, First, Reincarnation

"Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain."

Confidence,

"I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once."

Job,

"Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie."

Performance, Right

"Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box."

Ability, Culture, Mind

"Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives."

Politics, Philosophy

"I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history."

History, Sense

"Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family."

Family,

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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Philosophy, Misery, Humanity

"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

History, Books, Knowledge, Order, Learning

"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

History, Repetition, Lesson, Past

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

History, Printing, Years

"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

Voltaire, French Writer

History, Corruption, Nature, Violence, Humanity

"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Echo, Future, Past

"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

History, Culture, Philosophy, Decline

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

Victor Hugo, French Author

History, Goodness

"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

History, Memory, Identity, Crime