John Oliver Quotes
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As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.
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I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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The good thing is that I'm always honest.
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To measure the man, measure his heart.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.
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As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.
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Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.
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I must have a drink of breakfast.
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There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.
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The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.
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I remember the first time I played the triple-A Yankees when I was 20 years old, and Darryl Strawberry was on that team. It was the first time I actually got goose bumps playing against another team.
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I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.
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I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.
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I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!
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As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the 'human religious ideal' inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the 'christian religious ideal'.
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If there is any kind of legitimate ostalgia, it's for everything we've never even seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the friends we haven't made, the books we've never read, all the food steaming in the pots we've never eaten out of. That's the only real kind of nostalgia there is.
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I'm pretty open, and when I do interviews, I end up blabbing.
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There is no greater anesthetic than sport.
