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I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.

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
Comfortable
Simplicity
Older

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We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.
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Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.
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Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.
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I don't agree with Bernie Sanders that the banks should be broken up at this point. But Hillary Clinton's acceptance of huge contributions from Goldman Sachs and others... And we don't debate what Clinton has done. She has a public record. She's been Secretary of State. She's basically a candidate of Wall Street, for Wall Street.
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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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From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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