John Cleese Quotes
In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.
John Cleese
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza
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The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
Ornette Coleman
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
Katha Pollitt
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'The more I see of families ... the happier I am to be an orphan.'
Bernard Cornwell
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From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry.
Joseph Bruchac
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I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Wendell Willkie
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America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.
Barack Obama
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No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.
John Cleese
