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.’
BILL BAILEYBut our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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Contentment is knowing you’re right
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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don’t have these.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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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 tend to go through periods worrying, “Where am I going, I can’t see a way out of this,” and it becomes quite stressful. But sometimes you have to take a bet on yourself.
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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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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You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey.
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Marijuana? It’s harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it
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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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