Billy Connolly Quotes
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!
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Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
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I went to Carnegie Mellon for a year and a month or two, and then I dropped out because I got a movie. I didn't anticipate ever leaving school - I was a really serious drama student - and then that happened, and my life sort of took a turn.
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Jesus recognized that love is greater than like.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
