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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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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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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If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.
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Though our own hearts break, we cannot flinch; these are new times, sir. There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respect and ancient friendships. I have seen too many frightful proofs in court - the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!
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Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.
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The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.
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I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.
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World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. (p.66)
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
