In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.
Juan Williams
HistoryCollegeLoseElectionThree
We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.
Chris Stapleton
MusicHistoryWritingSongCheating
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
Salman Rushdie
ChildrenHistoryPeopleBookIndia
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'
Maya Angelou
HistoryTomorrowSlaveryStoryYou
In most riots in India, Congress has had a direct or indirect involvement. History bears this out.
Piyush Goyal
HistoryIndiaCongressOutBears
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
HistoryJusticeSilenceEvilBetter
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.
Stacy Schiff
WomenTodayPowerHistoryWomanYou
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.
Mickey Spillane
HistorySmokeDownWantNamesOut
The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'
Dennis Prager
HistoryManBlackImpactElection
The Thames is liquid history.
John Burns
HistoryLiquidThames
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
Anwar Sadat
HistorySolutionYouGiveOnlyArms
I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.
N. K. Jemisin
HistoryExperienceMy OwnWriteReal
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
Michael Heizer
HistoryArtAmericanWayThemeBig
Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.
Seth Lloyd
LifeHistoryWorldThinkingSexWay
There have been actresses who transitioned and nobody knew. But for me, with everybody knowing my history, it will be harder. I'm sure there are some great scripts calling for an ultra-glamorous woman. And I'm prepared to be ultra-glamorous.
Candis Cayne
HistoryGreatWomanMeNobodyWill
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
Robert Darnton
HistoryIdeasThoughtLiterature
My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
Judy Woodruff
HistorySchoolSisterHigh School
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.
Colm Toibin
HistoryPastFreeReadingThinking
The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality.
Sam Kean
HistoryMoneyQualityBlueColor
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.
John Lescroart
SuccessHistoryShortEarlyFirst
History asks us to imagine ourselves in a period, but it's a very different situation when you're in that period and faced with those situations.
Philip Kerr
HistoryYouSituationImagineUs
English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
Ian Harding
EducationGoodHistoryGreatSchool
We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.
Stuart Rose
HistoryTimeDayFaceRichBetter
Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us.
Mary E. Pearson
ChangeGrowthHistoryTimeSameUs
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