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John Oliver Quotes

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Stand Doing You Want Entertain

I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives that support kids to really get out there and work hard in their communities. But I also think that we need poets in our country to inspire.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Work Teacher Support Work Hard Think

There's no future in being poor.

Future Poor Being No Future

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

Stars Time Romantic Believe Remember

It would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the Force,' in the same sense that it would be misleading to say, 'I believe in the sun.' Give it whatever name you like - the Force, the Tao, the Holy Spirit, the Universal Mind - I see it in action everywhere I look, both in the world and in myself.

Myself Sun Mind World Believe Name

I believe that there are better opportunities to keep people safe if we are outside the European Union.

People Believe Opportunities Better

Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.

Business Character Think Thinking

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

Walk New York Feel Down New Street

We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.

Community People Doing Real Things

Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns.

Power Children Men Death Law Find

I think for anything to be successful, your problems have to become different problems over time.

Time Problems Think Become Anything

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

Change Freedom History Government

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

Best Book Picture Pictures Nice

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