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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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Oliver Stone
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: September 15
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William Oliver Stone
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Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.
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I'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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