Tommy Cooper Quotes

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

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• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  

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• I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.

  

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• Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'

  

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• So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • House
  • Said
  • Building