Neil Oliver Quotes

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

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• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Truth
  • Bible

• I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • Changed
  • Little
  • Michael

• People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • People
  • Food
  • Better

• My normal life is like being on holiday.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Life
  • Holiday
  • Normal

• I love football, football is my life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Love
  • Football

• My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Education

• The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Free

• I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Why
  • Feeling

• It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffering
  • Human
  • Angels

• I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Own

• When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Children
  • Start
  • Same

• Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Time
  • World
  • Soul

• The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Status
  • Status Quo

• He could leap the corral,If he roseTo his full height;He could splinter the fencing light,With three blowsOf his porcelain hoofs in flight - If he chose.He could shatter his prison wall,Could escape them all - If he rose,If he chose.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Light
  • Wall
  • Rose

• Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

  

  Benjamin Hoff
  • Time
  • Clever

• They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • High

• You never hear about good seafood places.

  

  Curtis Granderson
  • Good

• While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Free

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Work
  • Man

• There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm going to write stories for myself or work with filmmakers who want to tell stories about real people.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Always

• My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

  

  Neil Oliver
  • Work
  • Make
  • Happen