Oliver Stone Quotes
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant.
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When things are easy, I hate it.
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It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he Wilkinson does... He is such a dedicated so-and-so who only thinks about booting it over the posts
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Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
