John Cleese Quotes

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

John Cleese

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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.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Same
  • Walk

• Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Potential

• 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.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Live
  • Family
  • Looking

• 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.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • People
  • American
  • House

• 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.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Think
  • Worry
  • Disasters

• My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Dad
  • Never
  • Vinyl

• 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.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Want
  • Determined
  • Chapter

• I'm built for whichever scheme they put me in.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Me
  • Put
  • Scheme

• My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • America
  • Hero
  • Captain

• 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.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Real
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Work
  • Hurt
  • Professional

• Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Time
  • War
  • Enemy

• I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.

  

  Maluma
  • Lyrics
  • Filled
  • Margins

• Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• Whatever comes my way I'm basically interested in.

  

  Blythe Danner

• I always tell people if you think you are susceptible to a blood clot, go check with your doctor.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • People

• I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Work
  • Divorce

• I know how to make decisions, and I know how to lead.

  

  Jim Webb

• The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

  

  John L. Lewis
  • Men
  • Home

• That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Neighbor
  • Vocation
  • Ministry

• The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Great
  • Community
  • Jump

• People think it's so easy to make hamburgers. That consistent quality in so many restaurants, in that many parts of the world, is not an easy thing to do.

  

  Margo Georgiadis
  • People
  • World
  • Quality

• I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

  

  John Cleese