John Cleese Quotes
I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
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Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.
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To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.
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I don't want to work all of the time.
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Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. Her remarks about plays, her opinions of different players and the umpire, and the questions she will ask concerning the game, are all too funny to be missed.
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I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
