The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we’re still alive, before we die.
BILL BAILEYSo many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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.’
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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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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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There’s more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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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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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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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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I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was a bonus. I studied for a diploma with the London College of Music, and teaching was something I thought I might do but comedy intervened.
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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
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Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!
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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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Relaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
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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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