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.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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I received free health care.
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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.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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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.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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There's no point starting something you don't intend to finish.
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I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.
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What is more arrogant than honesty?
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I've always been shocked that people that I'm actually flying with say, 'Oh, I feel safer on the plane with you.' I'm thinking, 'You must not watch the show because everybody around me gets killed.'
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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.
