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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.
John Cleese
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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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John Marwood Cleese
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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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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 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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My hovercraft is full of eels.
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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.
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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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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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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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What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.
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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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I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.
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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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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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