John Oliver Quotes
You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into. That pairs with the fact that 12-step recovery has had too large a monopoly on how treatment is understood in America.
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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
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If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.
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I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.
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I have such freedom when I'm living through a mask, and by contrast, can feel very exposed when a camera is capturing my real face. Kind of like the difference between walking out your front door in a sweater and jeans or in a Speedo.
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You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.
