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John Cleese Quotes
«Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
before, conversation, could, dies, Die Trying, Having, look, Oh He, One of Us, please, spend, try, understand
«I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires»
«If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
acknowledge, acknowledges, laughing, laugh at, My ideas, open to, particular, persuade
«I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
| Keywords:
bland, businessman, incompetent, incompetents, naturally, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays
«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.»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
| Keywords:
boat, Christmas, Christmas Day, extraordinary, How to swim, miles, my father, offshore, out in, ritual, sack, sacked, swim, Take Me, The Hard
«You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
| About:
Change,
Life
| Keywords:
Dalai, Dalai Lama, Lama, The Dalai Lama
«The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
| Keywords:
chip, chipped, chipping, chip in, contribution, cuisine, the English
«If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'»
Author: John Cleese
(Actor)
| Keywords:
asking, Dan, Dan Quayle, fair, fries, fry, Quayle, with that