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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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 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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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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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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I love to perform live.
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I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment was so bulky that it took up one entire wall of the bedroom. The set, which could send or receive signals, was tuned to KDKA in Pittsburgh, and I remember being completely flabbergasted at the thought of sounds coming from that box.
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This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute.
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Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama was basically occupied by the United States. So he felt obliged to fight Americans in the ring. He felt the whole pride of his country and the need for cultural and political emancipation in his hands.
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When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a little bit of water in there, and you can see that sublimate and ice crystals form and fly away. My thought at that moment was, 'Oh, we are not kidding at vacuum here; we are really in space.'
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I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.
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I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
