John Oliver Quotes
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
Cameron Diaz -
One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
Orison Swett Marden -
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck -
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham -
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
Adam Cohen -
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
T. S. Eliot
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
Adam McKay -
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Walt Alston -
My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
Felicia Day -
Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. Auden
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
Ram Dass -
Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'
Gaby Hoffmann -
Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
Patrick MacGill -
Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
Abraham Lincoln -
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch -
All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.
Garth Brooks
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes has burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
Clarence Darrow -
There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.
Tom Stoppard -
A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
Francis J. Grimke -
I see songs in colors; I see days of the week. Each day of the week I relate to a gender, and it's very weird. I can taste words sometimes. It's very strange.
Alessia Cara -
We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.
John Oliver