What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
OLIVER STONEWell, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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As a dramatist, I don’t have politics.
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Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I’m wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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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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Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
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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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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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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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