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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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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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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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
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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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I never wanted 'Toy Story 3' to feel like another sequel just grafted on. We all know that if you put 3 after your title, it typically means garbage, and we knew that going in.
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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.
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You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.
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Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction. (p. 57)
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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.
