John Oliver Quotes
I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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The precondition to freedom is security.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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The passage he was to read was from Revelations - or Obfuscations, as he preferred to call them. Reading it over on the train from Cambridge, he had felt a strange desire to build a time machine so that he could take the author a copy of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
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As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens a lot when we don't live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don't go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.
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If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.
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It is always possible to improve.
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I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.
