“When your rainy day fund is so big you've got to check it for swimming cartoon ducks, you might not be a non-profit anymore.”

— John Oliver

Last Week Tonight (8 June 2014)
Last Week Tonight (2014–present)

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English comedian 1977

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“Unless you have retired or inherited a fortune, you need to work to fund your life. You owe it to yourself to ensure that your working day can be as positive and enjoyable as possible – so much fun that it does not feel like work anymore.”

Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach

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“Are we making more mistakes now? I don't think so. Science is a high-risk activity. And when you do science—this is very important incidentally for the general public, and for policy makers—if you are not wasting some of your money, you are not doing good science. It's a funny way to say this. You've got to back high-risk opportunities. And high-risk opportunities means some fraction of them are going to fail. And I think in any science funding scenario, you've got to say, 10, 20, maybe even 30% of your funds are going to be invested in failures.”

Leon M. Lederman (1922–2018) American mathematician and physicist

Comments on need for failure in scientific research.
From the Winding Your Way through DNA symposium http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/CC/lederman.php at the University of California, San Francisco in 1992 (URL accessed on October 20, 2008)

“I wouldn't put a date on that pancake day anyway, just av 'em when you want, have it when you want. There's no big deal. You've got to make 'em yourself, it's not like some place is openin' to do it. Have em when you want. I don't know why that's got a special day on it, sick-of-it”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

The Podfather Trilogy, Episode 2 Thanksgiving
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“…when you swim from England to France you’ve got to leave your doubt on the beach at Dover.”

Lewis Pugh (1969) Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer

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“This love was big enough for the both of us.
This love of yours was big enough to be frightened of.
It's deep and dark, like the water was,
The day I learned to swim.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

“Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?”

Rhodri Morgan (1939–2017) British politician

"This is the week that...", The Times, 5 December 1998, p. 8.
Reply to Jeremy Paxman on BBC Newsnight when asked whether he still wanted to lead the Labour Party in the National Assembly for Wales.
Morgan was awarded the "Foot in Mouth" award by the Plain English Campaign on 11 December 1998 for this quote.

“If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, it will take fifteen minutes.”

Monty Roberts (1935) Horse trainer

“If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

The Wicked Womb (p. 57)
The Female Eunuch (1970)

“When your rainy day fund is so big you've got to check it for swimming cartoon ducks, you might not be a non-profit anymore.”

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