John Oliver Quotes
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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My longing for truth was a single prayer.
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What turn of card, what trick of game Undiced? And you we valued still a little More than Christ.
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Even though I was very young, it was traumatizing seeing someone try weird things on their skin all for the sake of being lighter. It's as common as relaxing your hair or maybe even brushing your teeth. I had friends not wanting to do it, but their moms gave them creams to help lighten their skin. That's how accessible it is.
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My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
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Baseball fans are collectively the '10th man' and needed most when team performance is shaky. When mistakes are made, there's no need to heckle your team - that's what the other side is for!
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Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.
