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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: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 24
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I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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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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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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I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline.
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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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Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. Is this yours? she asked probably said Paddy she burns everything else
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.
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I just believe in the movie. I don't care what the book was like. I don't care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I've got.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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I think of my life as a series of moments and I've found that the great moments often don't have too much to them. They're not huge, complicated events they're just magical wee moments when somebody says 'I love you' or 'You're a really good at what you do' or simply 'You're a good person'.
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.
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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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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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If you're going to do an interview about a movie or anything like that, you're vulnerable. You say stupid things. Or if you're applying for a green card you feel very vulnerable and you're likely to spout out something stupid in the middle of it all.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.
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