Contentment is knowing you’re right
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More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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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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Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying ‘Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.’
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Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, “Hullo, we’re out of milk. I say mother, where’s the milk?”
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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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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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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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!
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Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
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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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Relaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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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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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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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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Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
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I’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.
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Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
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I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.
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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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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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