I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas' was and still is.
There's a few in our history, where the person who creates it becomes almost the product itself. Jobs is one of those.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.
Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.
I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.
No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
