John Oliver Quotes
I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.
Quotes to Explore
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I have a great office.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
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In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.
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I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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I'm a cowboy. I wear a hat. I drive a 4x4 Silverado diesel truck. I've got a farm.
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At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.
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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
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People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.
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I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.
