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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At the end of the day, the one commonality that both Hindi cinema and Hollywood share is that they are full of talented and inspirational people. Outside of this, there are many differences, from the scheduling and rehearsal to promotion and directing techniques.
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He who pardons easily invites offense.
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Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
