John Cleese Quotes
Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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Losers must have leave to speak.
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And that's true for most of the people from the show. You don't hear a lot about them afterwards. But I think the difference is that I'd already done stuff. . . . I really know what I want, I know what I want to do and I'm working with great people.
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I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.
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It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
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The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar on hair gel so you can get the perfect cowlick?
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Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?
