John Oliver Quotes
Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
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The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.
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Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.
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The rest to some faint meaning make pretense,But Shadwell never deviates into sense.Some beams of wit on other souls may fall,Strike through and make a lucid interval;But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray,His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
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My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.
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Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.
