Bill Bailey on dollars
Bill Bailey55 quotes“I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars… I’m not bitter at all.”
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I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Phil Robertson and his family are great citizens of the State of Louisiana. The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.
Bobby JindalBobby Jindal 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.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! …no eight!
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
Bill WattersonBill Watterson I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it’s like out there.
Bill KreutzmannBill Kreutzmann You can’t change people, but most importantly, unless you’re their momma, you don’t even know what’s best for them.
Brandi CarlileBrandi Carlile I’m a vegetarian, I’m not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they’re nearly fish aren’t they.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you’ve got to admire the workmanship.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Presence always wins out over principles.
Bill JohnsonBill Johnson Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.
Billy WestBilly West Television is where you earn regular money so you can plan a little bit but even then only when you have a regular gig. If you’re just doing the odd appearance, you don’t know if it will carry on.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey I’m quite lucky, because I’ve got a small, decorative concrete pig.
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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John McCain will pay hundreds of dollars for his own shoes. But we’re the ones who have to pay for his flip-flops.
Bill RichardsonBill Richardson Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
Bill NyeBill Nye I’ve never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger.
Bill BrightBill Bright I’d throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.
Ben BernankeBen Bernanke I would do an episode in two days and I got paid $500. After all the federal, state and local taxes were taken out and then my agent’s commission I only got $200 some dollars per episode.
Betty LynnBetty Lynn Even if you’re Bill Gates, you’ve got problems. I’m sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.
Benjamin CarsonBenjamin Carson She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply
Bella AbzugBella Abzug I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art’s longevity.
Barbara GoldsmithBarbara Goldsmith
