"I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take."

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"I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take."

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"In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

History, Politics, Law, Observation

"I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling."

Persis Khambatta, Indian Actress

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"I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene."

Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian

History, Christianity, Concern, Man

"Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

History, Belief, Regret, Wisdom, Truth

"I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past."

Ron Chernow, American Author

History, Historians, Past

"We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves."

Thurston Moore, American Musician

History, Time, Future

"Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

History, Unity, War, Cooperation, Importance

"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs."

Richard Le Gallienne, English Poet

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"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process."

Thought

"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."

Research

"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."

Experience

"Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies."

Home

"I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it."

People

"It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism."

People

"I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience."

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"I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling."

"I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally."

"The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene."

"Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin!"

"I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past."

"We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves."

"Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won."

"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

"All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs."

Explore more quotes by Oliver Stone

"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process."

"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."

"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."

"In any film there's always a historical implication."

"I study history in order to give an interpretation."

"I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history."

"Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies."

"I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it."

"It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism."

"I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience."