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• You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.

  John Oliver

  Moral High Ground, Wells, Loses

  "John Oliver Skewers Roger Goodell, Says NFL Commish Has Lost Moral High Ground To TMZ" By Ryan Grenoble, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.

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• Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

  John Oliver

  Empires, Drains, British

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• If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum you’ve strangled someone in a bar fight.

  John Oliver

  Fighting, Names, Bars

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• You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'

  John Oliver

  Thinking, Let It Go, Tvs

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• I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

  John Oliver

  Pessimism, British

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• My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

  John Oliver

  Queens, Voice, Sound

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• A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

  John Oliver

  Southern, Bags, Clubs

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• You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

  John Oliver

  Ideas, Interesting, Trying

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• I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.

  John Oliver

  Vacation, Relax, I Can

  "Guest Host John Oliver Will Try Not to Destroy 'The Daily Show'". Interview with Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And so I have an outsider's voice. You know, as soon as I start talking, I don't belong here. And I think that helps in a way.

  John Oliver

  Eye, Thinking, Talking

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• Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

  John Oliver

  Australia, Slippers, Racist

  "Australia 'most comfortably racist' country, says British comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Oliver". www.news.com.au. April 16, 2013.

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• Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

  John Oliver

  Baby, Children, Crazy

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• In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

  John Oliver

  Two, People, Listening

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• It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.

  John Oliver

  Clay, Would Be, Roles

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, www.avclub.com. April 7, 2011.

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• We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

  John Oliver

  Sound

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• The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.

  John Oliver

  Military, America, Shocking

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. July 1, 2013.

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• My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

  John Oliver

  Sound, Vowels, London

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• It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

  John Oliver

  Live Life, Visa

  "John Oliver is still kind of baffled by America". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. July 19, 2012.

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• When you see people say crazy things on our show, they mean this stuff,and that's easy to forget: They're not joking.

  John Oliver

  Crazy, Mean, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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

  Pie, Brave, World

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• I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

  John Oliver

  Powerful, Emotion, Kind

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• You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

  John Oliver

  Jobs, Writing, Jokes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.

  John Oliver

  Inherent, New Yorkers

  "Guest Host John Oliver Will Try Not to Destroy 'The Daily Show'". Interview with Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

  John Oliver

  Memories, People, Kind

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• Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

  John Oliver

  Comedian, Training, Conversation

  "John Oliver dishes on 'Daily Show'" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 13, 2013.

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