John Oliver Quotes
Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends: They're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
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When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.
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If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.
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I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.
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Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends: They're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.
