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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
Composer
Guitarist
Pianist
Screenwriter
Singer-Songwriter
Stage Actor
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Bath
Somerset
Mark Bailey
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This shed does not contain me.
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This was my attempt to deter cold callers: There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message after the tone.
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But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!
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I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!
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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of entropy when all it's thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endeavors ultimately pointless. Just to put the gig in some sort of context.
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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The day after tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life - that way you've always got a couple of days in hand.
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I got ham but I'm not a Hamster
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.
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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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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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People say 'Bill, are you an optimist?' And I say, 'I hope so.'
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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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I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.
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Talking of white supremacist violent types, I was in America, recently.
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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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Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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