John Oliver Quotes
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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New York is my home.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
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I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it's 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
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The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.
