John Oliver Quotes
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
P. J. O'Rourke -
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
Ted Nelson -
I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
Nadia Comaneci -
There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
La India -
It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
Dan Colen
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Olin Miller -
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann -
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
Zadie Smith -
A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
Harry Browne -
The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
Tariq Ramadan -
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
Irving Babbitt
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The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
Maggie Q -
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Walter Scott -
Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
Patrick deWitt -
From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
Dada Vaswani -
Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
Randy Pausch -
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
Steven Spielberg
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
Victor Ponta -
I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.
Natalie Imbruglia -
One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
James E. Casey -
The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
Alexander Payne -
I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.
John Oliver