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.
OLIVER STONEWhat Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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I feel like I am what I am.
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Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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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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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director’s thought process.
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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
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In digital, you can maintain the quality.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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