John Oliver Quotes
I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline of companies that measure public opinion. I am saddened to watch the lack of temperament and political stability of those who 'represent' a trend or ideology.
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I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
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I've always, in some way, incorporated sampling into my work.
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The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.
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I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.
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I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.
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If you go to a restaurant with Tom Cruise, it's like walking in with Santa Claus. Everybody is in a better mood because he's there.
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I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.
