John Oliver Quotes

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• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Country
  • Greatest
  • Grit

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Eyes
  • Accident

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Control
  • Smart
  • Information

• There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Real
  • View
  • Point Of View

• 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.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • Attention

• 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.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Power
  • Same
  • Differences

• When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Day
  • Yourself
  • Athlete

• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Baseball
  • Repeat
  • Axiom

• My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Community
  • Goal
  • Budget

• 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
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Identity

• Art is born of humiliation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Born
  • Humiliation

• If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Think
  • Free
  • Escape

• 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
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Say

• Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Players

• 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
  • Party
  • Short
  • Often

• Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • People
  • Book
  • Sun

• S’il fallait absolument choisir, j’aimerais mieux faire une chose immorale qu’une chose cruelle.

  

  Anatole France

• The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Up
  • Live
  • Earth

• Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Experience
  • American
  • Strong

• The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Relationship

• We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

  

  John Oliver
  • Words