John Oliver Quotes
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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When you give a good offer, people take it.
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I told the Commonwealth Commissioners I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars... I told them I was come into the covenant of peace which was before wars and strife were.
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My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport one day, she took out a letter that her therapist wrote, and she read it to me. She and her therapists wrote a letter breaking up with me together.
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Different parents have different standards for their children.
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I'm not dieting anymore. I want to eat what my body is asking of me. Just listen to your body in general - it's all self-awareness.
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Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.
