John Oliver Quotes

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

John Oliver

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• Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Friends
  • House
  • Dad

• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Enough
  • Call
  • Guess

• I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Think
  • Far
  • Expensive

• Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Father
  • Me
  • Habit

• At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Starting

• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Up
  • Always
  • Clothes

• When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Girl
  • My Own
  • Bedroom

• The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Stop
  • Government

• One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • Same
  • Movement

• I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Hate
  • Nervous

• To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

  

  Ovid
  • Feel
  • Cure
  • One Thing

• After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Long
  • Design
  • Clothes

• You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Seek
  • Satisfy
  • Objective

• You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Happy

• I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Truth
  • Like
  • Yes

• Work always comes first as an actor.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Work
  • Actor
  • First

• Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• I've never really worried about being called soft or people thinking I'm soft. If anybody wants to step and take that challenge, I'm more than happy - off the court - because I don't want to get suspended.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men…….. It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY?

  

  C. F. W. Walther
  • Good
  • God
  • Man

• Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • Up
  • Good

• And that impulse to make the world better, to push back on those who try to make it worse, that’s something that your generation has to hold on to. And you have to remember, it’s never easy; there are no days off. But if there’s one thing that I know from my own life, it’s that with hard work and with hope, change is always within our reach.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Attitude
  • Everyday
  • Wealth

• Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

  

  John Oliver