Quotes About Peoples Story

#1. The story of the many oppressed peoples of the world is rarely recorded by the few who oppress. We are taught that the truth is objective fact as written down by the conquerors.

Dahr Jamail

#2. The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

Walter F. Ulmer

#3. Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.

Cynthia Lord

#4. I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples have gone through to hold onto their culture and traditions ... wow, it's an amazing story.

Adam Beach

#5. I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

Gene Wilder

#6. Everyone's got a different story.

Emma Donoghue

#7. I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

Andrew Solomon

#8. No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.

J.V. Hart

#9. He expects me turn up for the inspection, glance through all of this, and then scurry back to Ohnlei to get on with my life. Marcus gave a rueful smile. More fool him. He doesn't know I haven't got a life.

Django Wexler

#10. Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

Alfred Rosenberg

#11. To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.

Ricky Gervais

#12. Listening and trying to understand the needs of those we would communicate with seems to me to be the essential prerequisite of any real communication. And we might as well aim for real communication.

Fred Rogers

#13. I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

Gail Sheehy

#14. Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

J.M. Barrie

#15. I love change, and I love changing my hair. But it was strange to look in the mirror and think 'Who is this girl?

Ashley Tisdale

#16. There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home.

Lester Levenson

#17. I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

Rachel Weisz

#18. Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

James Cameron

#19. I've worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the 'Columbo' show, I mean they were world-class actors from all over the world - Oskar Werner, Laurence Harvey, Donald Pleasence, you know ... foreigners.

Peter Falk

#20. While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

Gabourey Sidibe

#21. While the heart beats, hope lingers.

Alison Croggon