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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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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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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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People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.
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America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.
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I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.
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[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.
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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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Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind. We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over. We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.
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I'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.
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