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I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.

I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

The only reason to keep talking about history is if you are juxtaposing it with the world that we live in today, if you are learning something about our world by looking at the way they shaped their world.

So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.