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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: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies
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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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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 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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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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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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Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.
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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?
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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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Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.
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I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.
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If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money - money is all they think about - they're all nuts.
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You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.
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If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.
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