John Cleese Quotes
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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The U.S. business for most magazines is a moderate growth business. The international business - especially in China and Russia - is a faster growth business.
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I never got a degree; I just started writing.
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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.
