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John Oliver Quotes

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: british
Birth: April 23, 1977

Topics

Democracy American Backbone Injury

Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.

Business Roads Police Medicine

If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I'm behind on or watch the latest movies on demand that I usually missed at the theater. I love magazines. My top three: Graydon Carter's 'Vanity Fair', Adam Moss' 'New York magazine' and David Remnick's 'New Yorker.'

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Love New York Vanity New Three Top

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

Me Doing Say Way Write Finish

Mergers and acquisitions, we are always looking for that.

John L. Flannery

Looking Always Mergers Acquisitions

The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells film. 'August: Osage County,' as a play, is done. Written. On the shelf. It'll be performed in its entirety for years.

Nature Beast Play Done Director

When I'm singing my songs on stage, I feel like I'm doing a rock show, even though I don't think all my music is particularly straight up rock.

Music Singing Think Feel Doing Rock

I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.

Good Time Child Brain Gift Hands

Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.

Time Up Being Move Make Rewards

As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show.

Me Missed Never Kid Sit Used

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

Nature Environmental Sometimes Two

Whoever is in the spotlight, people are really quick to judge. I mean, there are a lot of kids coming up who've experienced that. You know, Justin Bieber, he's huge, and he experiences that. It's just the way the world works, unfortunately.

People World Judge You Know Way

The consumer is really underutilized in health care.

Health Care Health Care Consumer

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