Adrian Anthony Gill (A. A. Gill) Quotes

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

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• I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

  

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• If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

  

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• I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

  

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• During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.

  

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• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

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• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

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• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

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• There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

  

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• If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

  

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• I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.

  

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• To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.

  

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• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

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• Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

  

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• In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

  

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• There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

  

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• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

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• People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.

  

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• If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.

  

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• Quoyle with regards to Petal, his wife, 'There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering...In another time, in another sex, she would have been Genghis Khan.

  

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• Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.

  

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• One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control.

  

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• Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Television