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Hell is the impossibility of reason.

Oliver Stone

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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
Impossibility
Hell
Reason

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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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.
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I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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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'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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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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Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.
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I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.
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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 think our life is a series of adventures.
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You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.
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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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I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.
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