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years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.

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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
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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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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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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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