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My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.
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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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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God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
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Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.
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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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