John Oliver Quotes
I would never heckle someone. That's why I think I'm so interested in someone that would.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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the idea of movement.. ..just transferred from the Nude Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Duchamp painted this in 1912 into a bicycle wheel Bicycle wheel, his early ready-made from 1916-17.
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Everybody understands about expanding Medicaid. It's really simple.
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Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.
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I would never heckle someone. That's why I think I'm so interested in someone that would.
