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John Oliver Quotes

Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Food Remember Enjoy You Bad

In my life, there have been a lot of people who weren't there for me, so to now have people counting on me is awesome.

Life People Me My Life Now Awesome

Shaking's great. Shaking's one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the earth and moving energy through the body because it's where a lot of our stuff can get trapped. Yeah, I would recommend it.

Great Fire Man Moving Energy Body

My greatest moment as a jock occurred when I was 14 and playing punch ball in front of my house on Albemarle Road near East 17th Street in Brooklyn. I ran back, back for a ball, and it fell in my hands. I didn't even see it. Everyone congratulated me on the catch, and I never told them how it really happened.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Moment Me Road Hands House Brooklyn

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Patience History Questions Biology

Growing up in a house where there was a lot of different musical influences - my mom listens to soul stuff and Top 40, my sisters would listen to hip-hop - and the church, I grew up listening to a lot of gospel stuff. So I think that plays a role in how I make music now because my music has a lot of range. I don't just do one thing.

Music Soul Mom Growing Up Listening

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think.

Good Live Trust Think Easy Say

If it's tough believing what you believe, then maybe it's time to move. But if you are someone who militantly enforces your opinion about anything, then you need to get out of town.

Time Opinion Tough Believe Someone

Barack Obama was a president who understood not only how technology could transform the way government services worked but also technology itself. He got it.

Technology Government Way President

I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that.

People Know Controversy How

The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group while also reaching a wide audience.

Interesting Strategy Group Way Open

Let's empower men and help them take a stand to stop acts of violence against women.

Women Men Stand Help Violence Stop

I've tested for I-don't-know-how-many pilots, and I didn't get any of them. I would always try to go off the top and make it as spontaneous as possible, but acting in sitcoms is such a skill set, and I didn't have it. I wish I did back when I was younger.

Wish Back Acting Go Skill Possible

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