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Oliver Stone Inspirational Quotes (105)

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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.
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Anyone can relate to suffering in this world.
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Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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I don't agree with Bernie Sanders that the banks should be broken up at this point. But Hillary Clinton's acceptance of huge contributions from Goldman Sachs and others... And we don't debate what Clinton has done. She has a public record. She's been Secretary of State. She's basically a candidate of Wall Street, for Wall Street.
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writing = ass + chair
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I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.
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I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.
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Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It's a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it's hard to know what's going on unless you really follow it.
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After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt in that crowd, my father among them. And there was a great fear in '46 that we'd fall back into the pits. And they always wanted to break up the Roosevelt legislation.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure we don't even understand, because he's frankly pre-Christian, and his concepts of honor go back to Homer.
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I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program.
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Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.
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This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
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You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me people over 45.
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