John Cleese Quotes
Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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I don't know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It's just the way I am.
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Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.
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I aim to skate as clean as possible.
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What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
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Only today can art be metaphysical, and it will continue to be so. Art will free itself from the needs and desires of men. We will no longer paint a forest or a horse as we please or as they seem to us, but as they really are.
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Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.
