Oliver Stone Quotes
My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.
Quotes to Explore
-
My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
-
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
-
There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
-
Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
-
I received free health care.
-
I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
-
No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
-
Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
-
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
-
But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
-
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
-
I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
-
The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
-
It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
-
I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
-
All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
-
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
-
Notwithstanding the work of all kinds done by steam-engines... their theory is very little understood, and the attempts to improve them are still directed almost by chance.
-
I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.
-
There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
-
I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.
-
Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.
-
My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.
