John Oliver Quotes
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
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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.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
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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.'
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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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.
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The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.
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I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.
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In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.
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In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "No lie will last forever." We have to work at removing lies from our own hearts. And on the national level, we do this not because we blame our country, but because we love it.
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We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.
