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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Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.
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I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
