Billy Connolly Quotes
I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.
Quotes to Explore
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I am not sure what the future holds for me personally, but I envision myself continuing to work on spaceflight programs.
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The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.
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We have to work together. We have to support each other. When we hear about a wonderful woman, we have to tell other women about her. Help her, prop her up. Give her what she needs. That's a big lesson.
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I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.
