John Oliver Quotes
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
John Oliver
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
J. B. Pritzker
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
Dan Quinn
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
Yoko Ono
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
Ira Glass
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
Taya Kyle
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
Ira Sachs
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
A. J. Jacobs
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I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
J. G. Ballard
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
Mahershala Ali
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Modesty is the color of virtue.
Diogenes
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When we get on stage, naturally, you just get out there and work it as hard as you humanly possibly can do it.
David Bryan
Bon Jovi
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I am very glad that the criticism is what it is. It is all right that way. In complete opposition to our direction. Otherwise we De Stijl-artists would have nothing to do. I got another impression from your letter, but it is much better this way. There we see again: we have straightly to oppose the whole to-do, à part.
Piet Mondrian
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As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.
Christian Kane
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Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
John Oliver
