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Oliver Stone

Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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Done Scary Way
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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Believe Country Leader Lightning People
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Glasses Mind Thinking
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, “That’s not an Oliver Stone film.” But I don’t know what to do about that except just move on.
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Film Moving Stones
I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
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Ambitious Day Feelings One
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Country Film Half People Want
Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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Football Team War
It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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Economic Interesting People Times Tough
For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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Reason Shows Television
I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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Country Fine Give Giving People Take

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