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 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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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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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.
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The commercialism may wash off sometime later.
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Marc Allen is a living example and proof that the magical approach can help us create our ideal life - easily.
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Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?
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Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.
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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.
