John Oliver Quotes
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I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.
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But where are the snows of yester year?
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I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
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Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.
