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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.

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John Cleese
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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What's the bleedin' point?
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I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.
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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 World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!
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When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.
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The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.
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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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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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When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.
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My hovercraft is full of eels.
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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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Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.
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Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.
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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 have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.
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I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.
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I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.
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Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.
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