Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.
I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the French Left in 1978. Conversely, my first non-academic publication, a review in the 'TLS', did not come until the late 1980s, and it was not until 1993 that I published my first piece in the 'New York Review.'
Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time travelling, being inside a history book, in the actual locations.
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
When I was growing up reading history books as a young student, it seemed all wars had a winner. Yet in today's wars, it is increasingly clear that no one wins. Everyone loses.
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.
Puff Daddy is a great party thrower. He goes down in the history books.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.
Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.
When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.
I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
