Tommy Cooper Quotes

I went into a butchers and I said, 'I'll have a pound of sausages. 'He said, 'I'm very sorry, sir, we only serve kilos in here. 'I said, 'Okay then I'll have a pound of kilos.'

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• My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

  

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• I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.

  

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• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

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• If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.

  

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• Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

  

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• Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

  

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• Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.

  

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• You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

  

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• I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.

  

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• My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

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• In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

  

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• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  

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• For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.

  

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• I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.

  

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• To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.

  

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• When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

  

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• The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

  

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• My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

  

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• A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

  

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• I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.

  

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• And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima.

  

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• If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

  

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• I went into a butchers and I said, 'I'll have a pound of sausages. 'He said, 'I'm very sorry, sir, we only serve kilos in here. 'I said, 'Okay then I'll have a pound of kilos.'

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Said
  • Sorry
  • Humor