Oliver Stone Quotes

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

Oliver Stone

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LifeTimeMy LifeCameraBackIndia

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

Jennifer Lopez

LifeMy LifeDieTryingYouKnow

I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, in the wider culture people are deeply into naming, shaming and blaming each other. So we haven't lost that sense of conscience.

John Cornwell

CulturePeoplePhilosophyFindLost

Two things happen when you're fearful. First, you make seemingly rational decisions that are actually hedges. Or second, you fail to do something because you worry about the consequences.

John Landgraf

DecisionsWorryYouConsequencesTwo

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

PeopleOpportunitiesAmericanFriends

I'm as desperate as anyone for there to be a DACA deal, for there to a deal on DREAMers.

Ana Navarro

DreamersDealDesperateAnyone

You've got to have the right attire for the right event. I attend a lot of dinners, a lot of concerts, and I have to be on the red carpet; each has its own dress code, and I have to be prepared. Jeans and a hoodie are great for a concert, but a dinner party?

Amar'e Stoudemire

GreatRedDressDinnerYouParty

Unless I really make an effort, I quite enjoy looking a bit off and something looking a bit wrong. That's how I feel most comfortable. If anything, it's just because I'm, like, very scatty and not very good at putting stuff together.

Suki Waterhouse

GoodTogetherEffortLookingEnjoy

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

Miranda Hart

WishCareerNeverI WishUpWanted

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

Lucas Neff

TimeFunThinkYouActorNormal

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Janis Joplin

WorkTimeMeUnhappyFeelingKnow

Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true.

Joseph de Maistre

ManTrueBeliefMoreAlwaysDivine

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?

Joseph Howe

FireSimpleYouLibertyWillOut

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