John Oliver Quotes

We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it.

John Oliver

Recitation: by Male by Female

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BraveWorldPieNewWantBeyond

Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

SadFightPracticeToughNewNice

It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

Robert Green Ingersoll

ChildrenGreatManPeopleSmall

One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.

Michael Gerber

BusinessPeopleChallengesThink

We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.

Michael Chertoff

TechnologyTogetherPeopleYouKnow

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

Stephen Vincent Benet

LoveAmericanFatNeverNamesSharp

I don't care if people think I'm boring.

Steve-O

PeopleThinkCareBoring

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

Tony Stewart

SayingWrongWayScaredMayGet

People will say, 'I really don't like romance,' or, 'I don't read it - at all!' So how do they know? Weirdly, I think that the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' phenomenon introduced women to romance who would never have read it. And that means that they then go on to read my books, and that would be great.

Ruth Glick

WomenGreatPeopleThinkGoKnow

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

Russ Feingold

FaceAmericanLittleOffensivePart

I've seen where teams pay to get a player, like when Los Angeles paid to get Wayne Gretzky.

Mike Comrie

Los AngelesPaySeenWherePaidGet

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

Dean Ornish

FirstScientistForemost

The hardest thing to do is dig deep and be patient about the things you're going to learn month to month and quarter to quarter.

Christina Tosi

DeepLearnYouBe PatientMonthDig

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