John Cleese Quotes - Page 3

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• Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.

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  Jobs, Fun, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Feels, Indignation

  "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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• What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

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  Teaching, Followers, Absurd

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• You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

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  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.

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  Taken, Order, Giving

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• We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

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  Ideas, Laptops, Knows

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• We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

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  People, Wish, Doe

  "'Satire Makes People Think'". Interview with Christoph Scheuermann and Barbara Supp, www.spiegel.de. March 30, 2015.

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• Always start where the energy is.

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  Energy

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• In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

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  Girl, America, Attractive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

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  Technology, Instruction, Impress

  "Die Another Day". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.bbc.co.uk. November 20, 2002.

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• The English contribution to world cuisine: the chip.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, World

  "Fictional character: Otto". "A Fish Called Wanda", 1988.

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• I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.

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  People, Want, Rich

  "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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• When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

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  Needs, Comedy, Fixed

  "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 you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.

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  Thinking, Wish, Tricks

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• Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

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  Writing, Past, Wells

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• I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.

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  Bored

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• I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.

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  Thinking, Perspective, Research

  "John Cleese And The Key To Comedy". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

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  Strong, Children, Years

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• I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

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  Dancer, Terrible, Englishmen

  "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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• To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.

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  Being Alone, Creativity, Space

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• The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

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  Failing, Envious, Britain

  "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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• Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

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  Decision, Doubt, Efficiency

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• Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

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  Wine, Thinking, Experts

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• I'm not sure what's going on in Britain. I don't know what's going on in London. Because London is no longer an English city, and that's how they got the Olympics. I mean, they said, "We're the most cosmopolitan city on Earth," but it doesn't feel English.

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  Mean, Cities, Earth

  "John Cleese joins 7.30". Interview with Chris Uhlmann, www.abc.net.au. August 31, 2011.

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• When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.

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  School, Vision, Psychological

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