Billy Connolly Quotes
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
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Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.
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A woman can look incredibly sexy in a black suit.
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What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Some of us may offer a surprise Recently have you looked in our eyes Maybe we're your conscience in disguise
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.
