John Cleese Quotes

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• Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

  John Cleese

  Music, Mistake, Creative

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• Creativity is not the possession of some special talent.
  It’s about the willingness to play.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Play, Special

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• The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

  John Cleese

  Stupidity, Absolutely Nothing, Can Do

  Twitter post from Apr 4, 2017

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• A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

  John Cleese

  Laughter, People, Kind

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. February 5, 2008.

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• Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

  John Cleese

  Disease, Life Is, Sexually

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• Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.

  John Cleese

  Fun, Party, Aunt

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

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• If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

  John Cleese

  Funny, Animal, Meat

  "W.T.F.?". Book by H. M. Leathem, 2006.

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• There are 3 basic differences between we British and you Americans. One, we speak English, and you don't. Two, when we have a "World Championship", we invite teams from other nations. Three, when you meet the British head of State, you only have to get down on one knee.

  John Cleese

  Team, Two, Differences

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• I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

  John Cleese

  Stupid, Thinking, Ideas

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• All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

  John Cleese

  Wine, Order, Medicine

  "Fictional character: Reg". "Life of Brian", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.

  John Cleese

  Mistake, Creative, May

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• Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like.

  John Cleese

  Exquisite, Ought

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• If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

  John Cleese

  Preparation, Alternatives, Moments

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• Aping urbanity,
  Oozing with vanity,
  Plump as a manatee,
  Faking humanity,
  Intellectual inanity,
  Journalistic calamity,
  Fox Noise insanity,
  You're a profanity,
  Hannity.

  John Cleese

  Vanity, Insanity, Humanity

  "Ode to Sean Hannity". Poem by John Cleese, www.dailykos.com.

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• Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

  John Cleese

  People, Serious, Solemn

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• Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

  John Cleese

  Writing, Creativity, Way

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• If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

  John Cleese

  Jail, Who Your Friends Are, Want

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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• If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'

  John Cleese

  Life, Would Be, Asking

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• This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Mind, Friendly

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• When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

  John Cleese

  People, Age, World

  "The Secret Life of Brian". TV Movie, January 1, 2007.

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• No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.

  John Cleese

  Gone, Problem, Planets

  "How John Cleese got his accidental start in comedy". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. January 19, 2015.

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• He who laughs most, learns best.

  John Cleese

  Inspirational, Teacher, Learning

  "Creating Emotionally Safe Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents" by Jane Bluestein, (p. 215), 2001.

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• Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

  John Cleese

  Laughter, People, Division

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• The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

  John Cleese

  Christmas, Father, Swim

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• Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Important, Littles

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