John Oliver Quotes
For the record if someone did that to me I'd hitch a ride to the International Space Station straight away; of course who am I kidding, they would never let me in, I've got spiders for hands! Internet is mean!John Oliver
Quotes to Explore
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
Ofra Strauss -
Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
Kat Graham -
Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
Jack Schwartz -
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden -
Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
Ione Skye
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Fannie Lou Hamer -
The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
W. C. Fields -
Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
Gary Numan -
I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
Kailash Satyarthi -
The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
Beau Bridges -
Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
Taufik Hidayat
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
Frances McDormand -
I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
Rachael Harris -
I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
Ed Westwick -
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard -
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Flannery O'Connor
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You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.
Laurence Fox -
If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same.
Jon Postel -
The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism. The intermediate level, the chords and tempos, has to do with how the biochemistry and biophysics are organized, arranged, played out in space and time to produce a creature who grows and divides and is.
Ursula Goodenough -
When you look around Silicon Valley at new companies, there are very few ideas that are going to make a dent in the universe.
Brad Garlinghouse -
A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.
W. Somerset Maugham -
For the record if someone did that to me I'd hitch a ride to the International Space Station straight away; of course who am I kidding, they would never let me in, I've got spiders for hands! Internet is mean!
John Oliver