"Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?"

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Source : "Powell speaks with forked tongue" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2003.

Terry Jones

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“Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.”
“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
“My first job was actually as a social worker. And then later, I got my PhD in anthropology. And I've always been interested in humans as well as primates. We are all kind of have the same emotions, the same goals and lives really. But to me, when I first got to Madagascar I realized that the lemurs lives are very closely related to what the humans are doing; partially because they've got both looking for natural resources. And if we can make some way that both humans and lemurs can live together peaceably and happily, that would be my goal for Madagascar.”
“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”
“Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere, in all beings, before Christ; but in Christ we became conscious of Him. This is God. The third is bliss, the Holy Spirit.”
“It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.”
“I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.”

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