John Oliver Quotes
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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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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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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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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Believe it or not, but 'White Heat' and 'Little Caesar' keep dancing around in my brainpan while I'm writing 'Moonshine.'
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When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.
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I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.
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I was depressed for a long time. If you’re depressed long enough, it’s almost a comfort, a state of mind that you’ve made peace with because you’ve been in it so long. It’s a very selfish world.
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You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years.
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It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
