John Oliver Quotes
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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I spend a lot of time on TV doing the same sort of thing. I found a niche in TV where people are willing to steadily employ me to do this one thing, which I put spins on and change.
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It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
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I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
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It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
