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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy. - John Clee

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy. – John Cleese

Other quotes by John Cleese

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one? – John Cleese

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Travel
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John Cleese
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. – John Cleese

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Business
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John Cleese
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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

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Truth
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John Cleese
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Other Quotes from
History
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God cannot alter the past, but historians can. – Samuel Butler

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History

History passes the final judgment. – Sidney Poitier

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History

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. – Will and Ariel Durant, The Reformation

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History

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

Random Quotes

Its too expensive, thats the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. Thats not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not. – Kevin Smith

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movies

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. – Anna Jameson

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Fear

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasnt such a big fan. – Marion Jones

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Women

Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Poetry