Billy Connolly Quotes
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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I mostly stayed in the background. I was doing quite good, but I wasn't interested in most of the subject-matter. I only found music and languages to be absorbing. I simply hadn't the desire of listening to the teachers. Maybe because it wasn't interesting enough what they had to tell. I couldn't take schooling seriously although I'd love to go back and really learn now - it wasn't what I needed at the time. My mind would wander.
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Did I have a responsibility to discuss issues? Absolutely. Bobby Dylan was discussing issues – Disney wasn’t.
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The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth.
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We have to go back to the memories of 9-11. If that memory doesn't do anything to you as an American, then you're not really that sensitive a human being.
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With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.
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I know at least... oh my God, at least 127 words. And I still prefer 'Fuck'.
