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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

Oliver Stone

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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Character Integrate People Strong
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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Agendas Bombs Country People
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
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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Differences Marijuana Weed
The past assumes the nature of the present.
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Assuming Past Present
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
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Hell Impossibility Reason
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. … I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
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Done Scary Way
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
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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Moments Past Tyranny
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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Calling United States War
From ’45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we’re running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.
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Helping Moments Running
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
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Glasses Mind Thinking
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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Challenges Enormous Fronts

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