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Oliver Stone

"If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on."

-- Oliver Stone

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“The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.”
“A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.”
“The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.”
“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”

Source : "A Personal Matter". Book by Kenzaburo Oe, 1964.
“I had a hard time at school because I worked, so I was quite often out of school, which meant that I didn't make many friends. It can happen to child actors, because you're not in the school environment. And I did miss that school environment and being around people.”
“One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.”
“I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.”
“The kids ask about marriage. It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at.”

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