A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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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.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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I hate all those weathermen, too, who tell you that rain is bad weather. There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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Well, the film’s not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it’s pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies.
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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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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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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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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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