John Cleese Quotes
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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I think he's got an opportunity to come in here and contribute right away. That's one of the reasons he chose Louisville is so he could play right away, immediately and hopefully have some impact.
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When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And I think that fear is in part why I turned to comedy because I had no expectations of being a comedian. It was exciting to get good at something where I wasn't afraid of not being the best.
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You have a job but you don't always have job security, you have your own home but you worry about mortgage rates going up, you can just about manage but you worry about the cost of living and the quality of the local school because there is no other choice for you.rankly, not everybody in Westminster understands what it's like to live like this and some need to be told that it isn't a game.
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Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.
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Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
