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

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• Positive
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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

• On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • Where

• After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.

  

  Betsy Brandt
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• There's no doubt that Boko Haram has been driven from many of its strongholds in northeastern Nigeria. Now, President Muhammadu Buhari says technically, we have won the war. Those in the know say but technically, the army is still losing the battle because Boko Haram has changed tactics. Instead of now holding territory as it used to and calling this territory its own, now it is resorting to guerrilla tactics, hit-and-run raids and especially suicide bombings.

  

  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
  • War
  • Running
  • Suicide

• On stage, you have nothing to hide behind. It allows the work to live in a more organic place. It's almost like a meditation. You have to go on that stage and be as present as possible.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Work
  • Live
  • Present

• The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

  

  Christopher Nolan

• 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