"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."

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Oliver Stone

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“Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop circles that against these representation. You can hear this message on tons of lyrics and rap songs produced by independent emcees. But they are fighting against a well-oiled and well-financed machine.”
“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.”
“...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?”
“I love teaching; I love little kids.”
“I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.”
“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.”

Source : "May I Quote You, General Forrest?". Book by Randall Bedwell, 1996.
“If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.”
“The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.”

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