John Oliver Quotes
The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
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None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.
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You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia have jumped at the false conclusion, that Plotto is a dictionary of situations, a mechanism that yields a cut and dried plot by the mere use of a thumb index. Plotto, to the contrary, merely suggests the situations for the plot, explains what is to be done through Purpose and Obstacle and even offers suggestions as to the way in which it should be done.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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You're not going to make any progress on a problem if you're not honest about what a problem is.
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The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.
