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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I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
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People pay lip service to saving the planet, but they don't – they fail to make the big leap that if you want to save the planet, kill your fucking self. The planet will be saved without you. And what a delightful place it'll be. Welcome. It's a new thing I'm working on, called 'The Comedy of Hate'. Join in.
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The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.
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The truth is that key influencers exist in all effective organizations, but a solid-line org chart won't tell you where they are.
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I would hate to meet myself at 15.
