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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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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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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When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
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I have a Bolex, Aaton, Arriflex, Eyemo, Filmo, Mitchell, Photosonic, Beaulieu, Keystone - just about every movie camera you can think of.
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During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.
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My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to help give our fans a championship.
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I think kindness is actually under-rated. Especially with Silicon Valley - and probably in business in general - it's seen as being a pushover or ineffective as a leader.
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Music is such a powerful fundraising tool and it's so easy for me to share that and it's such a light.
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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.
