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"I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience."

Bill Nighy on History

More quotes about History

  • "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

    Confucius on History

  • "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

    Abraham Lincoln on History

  • "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

    Mahatma Gandhi on History

  • "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

    Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

  • "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

    Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Bill Nighy

  • "I don't even own a car."

  • "My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious."

  • "I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies."

  • "I'm not a royal family watcher."

  • "When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint."

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