John Oliver Quotes
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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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'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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You have to open up on stage.
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.
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I see and understand both the symbolic as well as the substantive elements of my life. Sometimes I visualise it as a journey of an individual from a remote village on the sidelines of society to the hub of social standing. But at the same time I also realise that my life encapsulates the ability of the democratic system to accommodate and empower marginalised sections of society.
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I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.
