John Cleese Quotes
Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.John Cleese
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
Oriana Fallaci -
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
Patricia Schroeder -
Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
Yoshihiko Noda -
I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
Orson Welles -
We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
S. Truett Cathy -
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
Fay Wray
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.
Tanc Sade -
You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
Patrick Lencioni -
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore -
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
Harold Acton -
I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.
Patrice O'Neal
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
Ferguson Jenkins -
But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
Candice Bergen -
It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
Sal Albanese -
I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
T. E. Lawrence
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People don't work in a dotcom because they have to. There are many professions that don't require that sort of time. But people sign up because they want to make world-changing differences, to build something that affects millions of people.
Kevin Systrom -
Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.
Richard Scott Bakker -
No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.
Anastasia Griffith -
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
Baron d'Holbach -
You've got to invest your own time, invest your own resources into creating a better world, not only for yourself but for the people you surround yourself with.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins -
Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.
John Cleese