John Cleese Quotes
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
Patrick Kavanagh -
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
Maajid Nawaz -
In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
J. G. Ballard -
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
Natalia Tena -
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Babasaheb -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
Dan Gertler -
I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
Youssou N'Dour -
I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
Mac DeMarco -
I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
Sam Brownback
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
K. Eric Drexler -
In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
Kage Baker -
I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
Maisie Williams -
People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
Aaron Paul -
I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
Dan Hicks -
Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.
Thom Yorke Radiohead
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar -
There's been such a pushback against political correctness, and I think that's due to the discomfort people feel talking about other people's issues that they don't fully understand.
O. T. Fagbenle -
I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.
Clotilde Hesme -
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
John Cleese