John Cleese Quotes
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.
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Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
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The government spokesman announces that there is no truth in the charges of widespread corruption within the Cabinet; nobody believes him; he knows that nobody believes him, we know that he knows it, and he knows it too.
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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
