John Oliver Quotes
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.
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A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't... You can't live your life for your routines.
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There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
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It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.
