"It was probably years before I was confident……" — John Oliver
"It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them."
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98 Quotes by John Oliver
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I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley -- the most…
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Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.
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Sarah Palin has been hired back by Fox News, and she only left five months ago. She has now effectively…
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Mr. President, no one is saying you broke any laws, we're just saying it's a little bit weird you didn't…
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Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.
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News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.
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Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a…
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Whatever the occasion, [the Queen] has a face which demonstrably says 'I don't give a royal s**t.'
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Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which…
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If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where…
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You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter,
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One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.
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