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John Oliver Quotes

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Fun People Go Going Faces Knew

Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.

Passion Myself Me Acting I Can More

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

Jerry Pournelle

Writing Better Roses Chair Down

You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop... And you really can't spend all of your time managing those actions, either.

Work Business Time Accounting You

Shared ownership will always mean that you will never sell as many cars as might have been sold without shared mobility... if people are sharing cars, then obviously you are going to sell less cars than would have been sold otherwise. But it doesn't mean that you will have a deceleration in private cars; it just means that the growth will be lower.

Growth People Ownership You Sharing

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Music Light Perspective Yourself You

I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.

Business Community People Team Two

I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.

Matching Kid Bow Trousers Wearing

I'm a very political person. I'm a very opinionated person. I have a lot of opinions about LGBTQ representations in the media, and it's not just a gay community issue. It's a black issue. It's an Asian issue. It's a minority issue in general.

Community Black Political Media Gay

When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.

Song You Feeling Down Nothing Write

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

Alone History Morality Three Never

Ensuring that the intelligence community adheres to its responsibilities to report on its activities to Congress is absolutely essential.

Community Intelligence Congress

I have an extremely tight, extremely big family, and I love them so much it's almost painful.

Family Love Painful Big Big Family

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