John Oliver Quotes
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
La India -
As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
Carlton Cuse -
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
Pamela Anderson -
People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.
Ada Yonath -
The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
Dan Pink
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Wangari Maathai -
I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
Yasmine Al Masri -
The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
Abbey Clancy -
I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.
Karan Johar -
Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
Patrick Ewing -
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V. S. Naipaul
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Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.
Lars Feld -
Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.
Adam Peaty -
A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.
Rachel Kushner -
I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
Wadada Leo Smith -
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
Bret Harte -
To involve young people and make sure that the system is more relevant to them in Scotland, we have a clear obligation to implement a policy of home rule.
Charles Kennedy -
The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I felt lonely and out of place. Writing for me became my private place, where no one could come.
Jean Fritz -
A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.
John Oliver