John Oliver Quotes
I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.

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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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I choose to express myself.
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I basically stay in jewelry all the time. I have the same couple of necklaces, earrings, and rings, and they usually don't come off my body.
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What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.
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I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
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To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare.
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I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.
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I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.