Oliver Stone Quotes

You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.

Oliver Stone

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GreatMomentBestJobStepEnough

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.

Jimmy Fallon

PeopleLaughSeriousSeeWhoLike

Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).

Joe Klein

MenBalanceWeaknessYoungSenior

All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.

John Lee Hooker

LifePeopleMeMy LifeNowTell

I would infinitely prefer a daughter.

Maurice Sendak

DaughterWouldPreferInfinitely

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

Max Eastman

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I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole thug thing was an act - it was silly and dumb. He was a complete gentleman and one of the kindest men I've ever met.

Lori Petty

MenManWorldGentlemanIceDumb

In the Trump era, it's way more obvious extreme racism exists. But there are still a lot of people who think, 'We don't have a racist bone in our bodies.' We have to face the racism in ourselves.

Jordan Peele

RacismPeopleFaceThinkWayMore

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

Douglas Trumbull

HelmetMoodFieldsAffectWhoYour

It's tough to be a mother. At any age. It's tough. It's a lot of work.

Chirlane McCray

WorkMotherAgeToughLotAny

When you play in the Champions League, you are switched on - very, very smart and focused on every situation.

Claudio Ranieri

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I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.

Cilla Black

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I don't have many friends, but I want to retain the ones I have.

Arjun Kapoor

FriendsWantManyRetain

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