I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
BILL BAILEYI’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.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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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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Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
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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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There’s more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
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I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think ‘Oh my God, I’m James Blunt, what have I done?’
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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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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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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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Tonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
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The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we’re still alive, before we die.
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I think we’ve missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro… to catch whatever it is that’s forming those crop circles! But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding Velcro, so it’s a bit of a long shot.
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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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Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
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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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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.
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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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Contentment is knowing you’re right
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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Stupid National Anthem… Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? “Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit.”
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In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we’re united and enjoy life – Without unity we are victims. Stay united.
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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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There we go, that’s it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
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