John Cleese Quotes
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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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 always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I don't think when I started off that I was expecting to become so specialized, but what happened is that when my career started, I didn't pick my first film. I was picked to do it, and it happened to be a horror film.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
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In my college days, I went wild with my hair. I dyed it every color in the book and, quite naturally, my hair would break off from all the damage. When our hair breaks off, of course, there's only one thing to do - braid it up. I wore braids for a while and would always feel like I just never knew what to do with my hair.
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The hardest part of the day is all the stuff after I open my eyes in the morning.
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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
