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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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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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 Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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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 always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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With Bitcoin, no one has a monopoly of information.
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My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.
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We try really hard to avoid those conventional experiences, these adrenaline rush, anger, competition, violence. We intentionally avoid that. We try to create a game that's serene and tranquil and filled with love.
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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.
