Billy Connolly Quotes
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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One must say bluntly that it is an unattractive sight when, with a view to smearing the Soviet people, leaders of such a country as the United States resort to what almost amounts to obscenities alternating with hypocritical preaching about morals and humanism.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
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Americans cannot afford to turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our democracy. We need to get to the facts and learn lessons to prevent future misconduct by foreign governments.
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Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
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The world is as it should be.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
Ford Frick -
Peace with justice means free enterprise that unleashes the talents and creativity that reside in each of us; in other models, direct economic growth from the top down or relies solely on the resources extracted from the earth. But we believe that real prosperity comes from our most precious resource - our people.
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Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.
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I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
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If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
