Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.
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More Bill Bailey Quotes
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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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I once punched a bloke in the face for saying ‘Hawk the Slayer’ was rubbish, when what I should have said ‘Dad, you’re wrong.’
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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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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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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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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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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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The reason we’d stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom.
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!
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I’m quite lucky, because I’ve got a small, decorative concrete pig.
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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.
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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 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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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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Marijuana? It’s harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it
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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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But our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
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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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There’s more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
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At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time.
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
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