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There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.

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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.
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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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The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.
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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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The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.
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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.
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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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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
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Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.
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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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The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
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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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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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My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.
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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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When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.
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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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I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.
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