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Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.

John Cleese

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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
Actor
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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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Laughter destroys any divisions between people.
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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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I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.
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The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.
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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.
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I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
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What's the bleedin' point?
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The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
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Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.
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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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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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I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.
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Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.
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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.
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England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
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Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.
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There's nothing good on the television let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.
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The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.
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I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.
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