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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.

Oliver Stone

I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Country Giving Order People Study
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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Country Done People Poverty
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
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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Animal Army Exercise
We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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Destruction Force Praying
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Connect Giants World
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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Beautiful Beauty Fusion
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Bumped People Thinking
Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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Different Original Stories Style
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
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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Country Ideological People Security
[Nixon] reduced the meaning of his life to nothing but power. In the film, we gave this sad figure consciousness of what he was. We weren’t right to do that – I don’t think he did have that consciousness. But we did it for movie reasons – to create empathy.
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Craft Empathy Thinking
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
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
You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
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Best Effort Judging Taken
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright

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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