John Cleese Quotes
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.
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I'm built for whichever scheme they put me in.
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My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
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I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.
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When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.
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I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
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When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
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Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
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Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.
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I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything from the outside, I'm focused on winning and that next game.
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And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.
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I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.
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I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.
