John Oliver Quotes

I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.

John Oliver

• Hope
• Running
• Positive
• Hug
• Negativity

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• What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Me

• I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • American
  • Immigration

• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Real
  • Game
  • Running

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• Hope is not a matter of age.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Hope
  • Age
  • Matter

• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Know
  • Always
  • Positive

• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Style

• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Business
  • Small
  • Positive

• If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • You
  • Problem

• There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

  

  Gail Collins
  • True
  • House
  • Running

• I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Call
  • Negativity
  • Therapist

• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Live
  • Art

• I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Hatred

• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Strong
  • Best
  • Positive

• I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Running
  • Thought
  • Process

• Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Hope
  • Reality
  • Technology

• Women are mad at me. A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me. Like, ‘How could you? How could you let a girl like that go?’ I feel like I want to give people hugs, they seem so sad. Rachel and I should be the ones getting hugs! Instead, we’re consoling everybody else.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Girl
  • Feels
  • Should

• If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Money
  • Vision

• I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.

  

  John Oliver
  • Hope
  • Running
  • Positive