John Oliver Quotes
We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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Fashion is instant - after six months, it disappears, and you have to start again. That's the nature of it.
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If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?
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My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.
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We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it.
