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We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.

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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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New York City
New York
William Oliver Stone
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Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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My home in Hollywood is not a home. I do a film here, a film there, as they want it. I don't have a relationship. Like, Warner Bros. has a great relationship with Clint Eastwood and takes care of him.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.
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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 might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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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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Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.
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Franklin Roosevelt saw the world as a possible alliance, with the UN involved, of course, where we would never have these kinds of wars again. And he was equally opposed to the British Empire as he was against the Communist Russians.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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