John Oliver Quotes
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But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way - that's the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.
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When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you have been to a museum this year?' Nobody raises their hand and I go into a tirade. If you want to do something sharp and innovative, you have to know what went on before.
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Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.
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I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.
