John Oliver Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Logician: A cat has four paws. Old Gentleman: My dog had four paws. Logician: Then it's a cat. Old Gentleman: So my dog is a cat? Logician: And the contrary is also true.
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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
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'Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary,' murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words 'Elementary, my dear Watson' has been found in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.)
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I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody.
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We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.
