John Oliver Quotes
Many people would argue that the most dangerous inhabitant of the earth is currently the self styled 43rd president of the United States. Not so much in deed anymore as in word. Because to hear that man speak is to wish upon yourself physical harm.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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My training diet can be quite strict when I'm coming up to competition; it's a weight-making sport, of course. But I eat quite healthily anyway, and it's less strict when out of competition.
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Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.
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Many people would argue that the most dangerous inhabitant of the earth is currently the self styled 43rd president of the United States. Not so much in deed anymore as in word. Because to hear that man speak is to wish upon yourself physical harm.
