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.
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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.
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
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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.
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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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.
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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.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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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.
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I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'
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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.
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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.
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
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Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
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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.
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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.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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This world is suchier than we are, and the best thing to do is keep moving and find your keys.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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I certainly feel I'm carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I'd like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be.
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The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.
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We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.
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It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.
