"Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery."

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Source : Terry Jones (2009). “Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror: Observations and Denunciations by a Founding Member of Monty Python”, p.2, Nation Books

Terry Jones

#Meaningful Quotes #Terrorism Quotes #Mockery Quotes

“I do a lot of vocal hygiene.”

Source : "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.
“Don't believe everything you hear on the street.”
“No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.”
“Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.”
“How strange it is to be anything at all”

Source : "Song: 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'". 1997.
“If I get invited somewhere I can never usually say no. And then I don't leave until I'm asked to.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I would love to study guitar or trumpet.”
“Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.”

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