John Oliver Quotes
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.
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As an individual, I need space and can't be locked in a house with strangers. I would do 'Bigg Boss' if I get to co-host it with Salman Khan.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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There is no question that international tourism is on the rise - we see it at Bergdorf Goodman; we see it in Miami.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
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Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.
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I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.
