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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.
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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 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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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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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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I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.
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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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Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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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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What's the bleedin' point?
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I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?
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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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God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
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