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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.

Billy Connolly

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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Country Reserves Successful
didn’t even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!
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Club Magazines Number People Radio Station
Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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Expensive Looks Stolen
The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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Country Music Optimism People Wanter
Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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Anthem Boring Country Funny Humor
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Funny Love Marriage Wedding
Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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Objects Running Scissors
People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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Needs People Toilet
Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Comedy Euthanasia Fame
If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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Funny Humor Jesus
The more you know the less the better.
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Better Knows Less More
I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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Documentaries Glasses Hate People
I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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Between People Body Country Crosses Malfunction
I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can’t fly
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Adelaide Air Fly Pointed
Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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Book never People Trust
I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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Blow Make Think Thinking Useless

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.

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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.

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