Oliver Stone Quotes
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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Imagination rules the world.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly photographed, that's not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie.
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Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.
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Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar.
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Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.
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I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if any of them come to mind. Besides, admitting the truth wouldn't sound too good (...) The truth, Russell, is that now the moment's here, I'm scared shitless. Somehow I don't think even Public Information could turn that into good copy.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
