We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
OLIVER STONEChristianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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’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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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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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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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.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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I’m trying to understand my life. The one that I’ve experienced.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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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Each actor requires a different language.
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From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
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