Oliver Stone Quotes
But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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I also found being called Sir rather silly.
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I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.
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I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.
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...the Democrats know that no matter how many GATTs, NAFTAs, empty OSHAs, and other betrayals...they heap on those labor leaders, they can be had because, once again, the Republicans are deemed worse.
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I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
