Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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More Oliver Stone Quotes
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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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I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?
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I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
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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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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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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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I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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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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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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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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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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The past assumes the nature of the present.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I’ve tried to get the overall in. I think that’s more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.
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