John Oliver Quotes
We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.
John Oliver
Quotes to Explore
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. Auden
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
Ram Dass
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Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'
Gaby Hoffmann
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
Ian Lustick
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
Patrick MacGill
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I think there are lots of reasons to take projects. Being scared about one is always good.
Genevieve O'Reilly
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I've had letters from people who have read my articles and said, 'I'm a guy, I'm 18, and I've not come out to my mom and dad yet, but it was so nice to hear your story, and you know, I wish your article would have been longer, because you gave me hope for the future.'
Luke Evans
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Main deficiency of active people. Active men are usually lacking in higher activity-I mean individual activity. They are active as officials, businessmen, scholars, that is, as generic beings, but not as quite particular, single and unique men. In this respect they are lazy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.
Debbie Reynolds
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.
Marge Piercy
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We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.
John Oliver
