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I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

I do not really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, you do not build that.

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can not do to describe something like war or history. I am not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

I am a good son, a good father, a good husband - I have been married to the same woman for 30 years. I am a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, You know, that is part of history.

This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

I want to go down in history.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

I like American history.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

I have never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it is history?

If I did not have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Love is the whole history of a woman life, it is but an episode in a man.