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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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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
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For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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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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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don't eat anything out of a bucket.
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I'm one of the school of people who don't do research of the reality of the thing or the unreality of the thing. In all the movies I've done, I've never done any research.
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I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.
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The more you know the less the better.
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What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they expect to find?
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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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Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn't too nice a thing to do.
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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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A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you!
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.
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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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