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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.

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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
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.
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A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: He was a man sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man. I love that line.
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I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.
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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'm a history person I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.
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Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
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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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There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.
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I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.
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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.
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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The second [presidential] term changes, and I think that John F. Kennedy certainly ran on that and he knew that second term would give him oxygen, and he needed it. Unfortunately, he didn't get there.
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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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