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Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

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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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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The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.
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My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.
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If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.
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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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years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.
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Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
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Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
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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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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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I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
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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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Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
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I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
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Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.
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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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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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