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.

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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
  • People
  • Father
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • House
  • Picture
  • Unique

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Husband

• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Day
  • Smile
  • Humor

• 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
  • Kids
  • Pleasing
  • Fired

• 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
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Peace

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Needs
  • According
  • His

• I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Real
  • Father
  • Like

• When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Job

• I got through college.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • College
  • Through
  • Got

• My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Wife

• I will say I am the sum of my books.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Books
  • Sum

• Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fighting

• The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Best
  • Too Much
  • Plants

• 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
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Control

• Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Soul
  • Tea
  • Head

• Whenever you find a preacher who takes the Bible allegorically and figuratively...that preacher is preaching an allegorical gospel which is no gospel. I thank God for a literal Christ, for a literal salvation. There is literal sorrow, literal death, literal Hell, and, thank God, there is a literal Heaven.

  

  J. Frank Norris
  • God
  • Death
  • Heaven

• The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women.

  

  Allison Anders
  • Women

• I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Done
  • Book

• You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World

• I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• 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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