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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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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I always have to be writing.
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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've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.
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I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.
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I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has.
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I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.
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It's not hard to be a woman in comedy as long as you're also a writer. You have to create your opportunity.
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Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
