Billy Connolly Quotes
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
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If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
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I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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We are sold the idea of a refugee as a tiny child sitting crying, as a way of raising money, but elderly ladies and kids largely can't move. The demographic is mostly young men.
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I just went to the hobby shop and got an electricity kit and a chemistry kit, and I'm really excited to do experiments like squeezing an egg into a bottle and growing crystals. I'm really getting into hobbies.
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What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
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We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
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As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.
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I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.
