John Cleese Quotes
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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I'll say anything to live.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
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I'm not somebody who is genetically gifted when it comes to facial hair.
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The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.
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As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.
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Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.
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Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
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My home has always been show business.
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The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
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There was no one around me who didn't work hard.
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While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.
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That stupid fucking kid! That stupid fucking kid! Look what he's done to me!
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'There’s a point, around age twenty,' Bedap said, 'when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.'
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The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.
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By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.
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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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My daughter is reading various Young Adult vampire stuff, and I ask her, "Is there even a bad vampire in the story?" There's always a good vampire now, but do any of them sleep in coffins? And I would bring her down to my library and say, "Here's every classic vampire literature. There are coffins, there's this, there's that," you know? "When you get to the YA stuff, you may try some of this stuff just to see where it came from."
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
