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 have 18 tattoos. My tattoos have kind of become their own person. Everybody does stories on them. It is risky to be successful in the fashion industry and to tat your body up, but I figured, the way that I made my career and the way that I am successful is because I have always been myself.
Jessica White
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I find I'm not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on the mountainside in County Donegal that's, you know, 'Oh, a melody.' It's more a matter of eventually taking that moment with me to the studio, and it begins to evolve.
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
Cavour
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I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.
John Oliver
