John Oliver Quotes
I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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Presumptuously, I speak for all Who fans when I say being a fan of the Who has incalculably enriched my life. What disturbs me about the Who is the way they smashed through every door of rock & roll, leaving rubble and not much else for the rest of us to lay claim to.
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I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right
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We do not see rightly until we learn to eliminate what we expect or wish to see from what we really see.
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I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it... The outside world was this strange place that was not so much dangerous as not as interesting as what went on in the house.
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I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.
