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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

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Bill Bailey
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 13
Comedian
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Stage Actor
Stand-Up Comedian
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I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.
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I think we've missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro... to catch whatever it is that's forming those crop circles! But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding Velcro, so it's a bit of a long shot.
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
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At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time. I got into a theatre company and started doing stand-up gigs for cash, so I lived hand-to-mouth, but there was always enough to pay the bills.
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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That ideology was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs: The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer Rouge, the religious persecution of the Nazis, the enforced beard-wearing from the world of folk music, and the segregation and humiliation of women from the world of golf.
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I'm English and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
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In Unity there is strength We can move mountains when we're united and enjoy life - Without unity we are victims. Stay united.
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Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'
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People say 'Bill, are you an optimist?' And I say, 'I hope so.'
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Talking of white supremacist violent types, I was in America, recently.
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I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.
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I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine
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Television is where you earn regular money so you can plan a little bit but even then only when you have a regular gig. If you're just doing the odd appearance, you don't know if it will carry on.
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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! ...no eight!
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying 'Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.'
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