John Oliver Quotes
Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.
Quotes to Explore
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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I am happy in Paris.
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You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.
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I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.
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Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.
