John Oliver Quotes
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
Quentin Tarantino -
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
Pat Morita -
I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
Gabrielle Aplin -
Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
Tadashi Shoji -
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
Abraham Maslow -
There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
Carlos Santana Santana
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
Dan Jenkins -
I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
Earl Weaver -
One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
Walter Dean Myers -
I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'
Taylor Negron -
Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
Adam Peaty
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
Caitlin Moran -
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
Ian Hunter -
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
Ramakrishna -
If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.
Barry Ritholtz -
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
Felix Frankfurter
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There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
Doris Lessing -
Freedom has never been free.
Medgar Evers -
Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going to let me screw around my life anymore, so I stopped drinking and started behaving like a decent human being.
Jason Bateman -
With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.
Mark Rothko -
I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
T. S. Eliot -
It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.
John Oliver