John Cleese Quotes
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.
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I'll always welcome some extra shifts and some extra ice time, and it's my job to be as prepared as possible to play those minutes.
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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I just go out there every game and try to be the best I can be for our team.
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I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
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I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.
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Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.
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Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
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Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.
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Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
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Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?
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I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes. Immediately the host interrupted me and asked, 'Are there still infinitely many primes?'
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Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
