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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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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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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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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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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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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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 have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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Blanc et Eclare is always what I work on constantly.
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You can go to the Internet and know more than your mom in two seconds. It's crazy how fast teenagers have knowledge and information these days. So, I think it's harder to say, 'Your father and I know more than you.'
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.
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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.
