John Oliver Quotes
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
Nazanin Boniadi
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
T. J. Miller
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
Rand Paul
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
Jackson Browne
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Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
Zac Brown Band
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
Haile Selassie
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My father had been an avid fan of Chaplin during the silent film days, but when the talkies came along, my father lost all interest in movies.
Claude Picasso
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Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may be, whether an experimental investigation, or a theoretical calculation. ... It is by the choice of a suitable method of attack, that intricate problems are reduced to simple phenomena, and then easily solved.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.
Willard Gaylin
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I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.
Jim Goldberg
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I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.
Katharine Isabelle
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Americans just don't understand dry wit.
John Oliver