John Oliver Quotes
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
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I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
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I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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I have a very small public.
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Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
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Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.
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People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.
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When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.
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Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.
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Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.
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As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.
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I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.
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This modeling thing, it's pretty easy, but actually it's also really tough.
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Anything you need, you can get on YouTube. It's wacky.
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You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.
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What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
