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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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New York City
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William Oliver Stone
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Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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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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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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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no to the United States. The United States is the dominant power in the universe, with its eavesdropping abilities, cyber abilities. And the world is in danger with our tyranny.
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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 think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.
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