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Best Quotes by John Cleese (Top 10)

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.
John Cleese
He who laughs most, learns best.
John Cleese
Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
John Cleese
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
John Cleese
Because, as we all know, it's easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it's also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we're not so sure about.
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Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.
John Cleese
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
John Cleese
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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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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I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!
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This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.
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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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Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers " which is why almost no technology ever works.
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We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.
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If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
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The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
John Cleese
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.
John Cleese