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Wisdom isn't an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn't an answer. It's a question.
Billy Connolly
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Billy Connolly
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 24
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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, Did you fall? He said, No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.
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Oh aye...my Father would thrash me every now and then. He'd talk while he did it too! He'd hit me and shout, 'Have ye had enough?' Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? 'Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???'
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, Has the bus come yet?. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club's badge - but not a sausage.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.
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Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born nowhere! It's over!
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I don't like the beach. I think we have no business at the beach at all, as a species. We don't belong in the sea. The sea is full of things that bite us, sting us, hurt the soles of our feet, and it's extremely cold. When are we gonna take the hint that the things that live in the sea don't like us?
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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