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1. "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." ~ John Cleese
2. "What's the bleedin' point?" ~ John Cleese
3. "Your Mother was A Hamsterand you Father Smelled of elder berries" ~ John Cleese
4. "Laughter is a force for democracy." ~ John Cleese
5. "Whose fault is it, then? Dennis Compton's (Basil Fawlty)" ~ John Cleese
6. "If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?" ~ John Cleese
7. "He who laughs most, learns best." ~ John Cleese
8. "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." ~ John Cleese
9. "God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered." ~ John Cleese
10. "If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'" ~ John Cleese
11. "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." ~ John Cleese
12. "England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are." ~ John Cleese
13. "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
14. "The most creative people have this childlike facility to play." ~ John Cleese
15. "Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it." ~ John Cleese
16. "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
17. "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." ~ John Cleese
18. "Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies" ~ John Cleese
19. "How to defend yourself against a banana" ~ John Cleese
20. "Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn." ~ John Cleese
21. "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." ~ John Cleese
22. "It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise " ~ John Cleese
23. "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
24. "But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with." ~ John Cleese
25. "A man will give up almost anything except his suffering." ~ John Cleese
26. "The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip." ~ John Cleese
27. "For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard." ~ John Cleese
28. "Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?" ~ John Cleese
29. "Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited." ~ John Cleese
30. "Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it." ~ John Cleese

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