John Oliver Quotes

Lest we forget, when Europe goes far right, they go far right through Belgium.

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• When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • First
  • Order
  • Trauma

• If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Different
  • Long
  • Man

• I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Love
  • High
  • Think

• Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shoes

• It's a very violent game, and bodies take a beating, so you want to make sure you do everything you can to get your body back. It's just something you have to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Game
  • Want
  • Body

• My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Orphanage

• Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • Men
  • Respect
  • Value

• My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Life
  • Audience
  • My Life

• The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the country. But people are not going to say it. People are not going to step out and say, 'I have a problem with Romney because he's Mormon.' What they're going to say is he's a flip-flopper... It's a fact; it's reality.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Work
  • You

• The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Bad
  • Like
  • Look

• What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Child
  • Professional
  • Tantrums

• If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Want
  • Evidence
  • Photo

• Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit from the Middle East's growing wealth.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Growing
  • Peace
  • Wealth

• I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Citizens
  • Voters
  • Favour

• People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • Hope
  • Wish

• The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Real
  • Dying

• Greed puts out the sun.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Sun
  • Greed

• He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind-but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Mind
  • Gun

• Success is the reward for toil.

  

  Sophocles
  • Success
  • Reward
  • Toil

• 'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Work
  • Children
  • Autonomy

• One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Environment

• Lest we forget, when Europe goes far right, they go far right through Belgium.

  

  John Oliver