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Oliver Stone

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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Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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Missing Next Popcorn
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Generation People Thinking
As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Framastic People Politics
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
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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Credit Effort Important
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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Country Gun People Use
I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Comfortable Simplicity
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 Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
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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Country Evolution Greed Humans People
What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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Believe Country People Understanding United States
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
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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Campaigns Country Going People

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