John Oliver Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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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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If you're a guy who's always been the fun-to-be-around teddy bear, then all of a sudden people are viewing you as sexy, it's nice. It's great not having to be the plucky best friend or the comic relief anymore - I love that.
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Sometimes, the hate that I endure is not necessarily about me but about the space I'm in.
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I knew 'Be Our Guest' would be performed on a set and in costume, but anyone with a history in Theatre In Education will know that can mean anything.
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I believe the United States is very sick financially and might not survive another four years of Obama-style leadership.
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I would hate to meet myself at 15.
