John Oliver Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.
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If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.
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He George W. Bush was speaking in congress and he was saying 'Why do they hate us? Because of what’s going on right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Except for me, of course. I took the presidency in a bureaucratic coup with the help of my father’s friends in the courthouse around the corner.'
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Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.
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It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.
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The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.
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I would hate to meet myself at 15.
