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I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.
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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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John Marwood Cleese
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Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.
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It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.
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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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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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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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Laughter destroys any divisions between people.
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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
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We need to be in the open mode when we are pondering a problem, but, once we come up with a solution, we must then switch to the closed mode to implement it.
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I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
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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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I would like to do my own eulogy, and then shoot myself and then get in the coffin.
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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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Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.
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I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.
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Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.
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It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor
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I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!
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What's the bleedin' point?
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I could take an umbrella and balance it on my chin or on my foot. And I just got interested in that kind of thing. And as I played games more and more and got stronger physically, I just became more coordinated.
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I think there are so many activities going on, like mountaineering. You know, you would pay good money not to have to do that, and yet there are people racing out who want to spend their spare time clambering up rocks.
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