John Oliver Quotes

I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

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• I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Love
  • Intimidates

• General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Nature
  • Powerful
  • Well

• We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Why
  • Decisions
  • Consequences

• I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Earth

• When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Work
  • Small
  • Single

• What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Business
  • Goals
  • Advertising

• I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

  

  Fleur East
  • Running
  • Body
  • Yoga

• Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • People
  • Good
  • Man

• To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Mischievous
  • Understatement

• I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

  

  Feist
  • Death
  • Really
  • London

• He who talks much cannot talk well.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Talk
  • Well
  • Talks

• Experience alone can teach us the best forms of construction for sailing apparatus in order that they may be of sufficient strength, very light, and most easily managed.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • May
  • Experience
  • Light

• No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

  

  E. B. White
  • Live

• A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • May
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• A world where nothing is had for nothing.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • World

• 'Much of what we see in the universe,' said Hugo, 'starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.'

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Universe

• My favorite thing is being able to travel around the world and perform for my fans. I think I’ve lost 80 percent of my hearing. I definitely have very loud fans.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • World
  • Lost
  • Travel

• I'm a standup comedian, so I need people.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People

• Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

  

  Rumi
  • Hurt
  • Taste
  • Wings

• I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

  

  Genevieve Gorder
  • Giving

• We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wise
  • Discipline
  • Laugh

• Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Art
  • Challenge

• I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

  

  John Oliver