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John Cleese
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John Cleese
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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John Marwood Cleese
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My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.
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As Daniel Levitin writes, our brain is a giant pattern detector. If we read something that coincides with what we already believe we're more likely to give it credence, while the opposite is not true.
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Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
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I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.
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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.
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Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.
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I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.
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When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.
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I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.
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The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
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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.
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God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
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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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Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.
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The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.
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Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.
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Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.
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There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.
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I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
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