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John Oliver Quotes

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Sometimes Group British Press

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

Music Words I Can Write Much

My biggest weakness is that I'm excessive. Fortunately for everyone concerned, I'm not as excessive as I used to be.

Weakness Everyone Used Concerned

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

Together Special Never Band See Her

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

Music Innovation Me Drum Sit Behind

Getting the book published and the movie made was not an easy task. But it helped. Because even though it's a difficult life to explain, I lived it.

Life Book Easy Difficult Task Lived

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Alone Past Government Society Deep

My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.

Music Moment Me Process Discovery

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

Responsibility Individual Changing

At the end of the day, the truth is that if - when - robots prevail, so many vocations will actually become close to impossible. Save for the profession of making robots, that is.

Truth Day Impossible Truth Is End

I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.

Philippe Falardeau

Funny Situation Want Jokes Keen Too

I've always been a DVD geek and, before that, a laser disc fanatic, too.

Always Laser Geek Been Before Too

In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.

Peter Diamandis

Bubble First Launch Cost Million

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