John Cleese Quotes

When I was teaching, the headmaster told me 'You know, the sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.'

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• My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.

  

  Zach Anner
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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  

  Iris DeMent
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• I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

  

  Finn Wittrock
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• The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.

  

  Lara Giddings
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• If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

  

  Sam Ervin
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• May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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• A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

  

  Flume
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• I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.

  

  Laura Fraser
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• I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

  

  Nate Lowman
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• We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
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• I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.

  

  Orson Pratt
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• I doubt there’s ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
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• The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
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• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• When I was teaching, the headmaster told me 'You know, the sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.'

  

  John Cleese
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