John Cleese Quotes
Six hundred years ago we would have been burned for this. Now, what I'm suggesting is that we've advanced.
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
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Hope is not a matter of age.
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I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
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The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
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I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
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Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.
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I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.
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I've been spoiled rotten with the costumes I've worn.
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Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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Only men of character are trusted.
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I like to space out my work.
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I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.
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When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.
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It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.
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I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.
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If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.
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Very exceeding wonderful is the history concerning Abraham, for the kingdom of Christ is therein wholly represented.
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I cannot judge a country. I fall in love with the people and the place each time I visit a new place.
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When the classical worldview was applied to social science, the dominant notions turned out to be struggle for survival, the profit of the individual, with at best an assumed automatic coincidence of individual and societal good (through Adam Smith's "invisible hand"). When the systemic vision inspires the theories of social science, the values of competition are mitigated by those of cooperation, and the emphasis on individualistic work ethos is tempered with a tolerance of diversity and of experimentation with institutions and practices that foster man-man and man- nature adaptation and harmony.
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Six hundred years ago we would have been burned for this. Now, what I'm suggesting is that we've advanced.
