John Oliver Quotes

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. And I guess I've always liked to channel some kind of personal element to that.

John Oliver

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I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Jodie Foster

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My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.

Jerry Yang

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I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

Amy Poehler

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I haven't been part of the criminal world.

Steve Toltz

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To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

Robert Duvall

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Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Roman Jakobson

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Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be the prerogative of the minority.

Joseph Brodsky

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The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

Dennis Washington

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I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

Dennis Quaid

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If I have half an hour to spare, I just have to hit the shops. And I can get overexcited.

Dorothy Atkinson

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New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

Donald Hall

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I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

Dean Ween

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