This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
OLIVER STONEChristianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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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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The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the ’90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given Sunday was the last. And that was the end of the Terry Semel/Bob Daly regime.
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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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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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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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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn’t like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
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