The so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing.
BILL BAILEYAt 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.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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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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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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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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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So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!
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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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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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I’m quite lucky, because I’ve got a small, decorative concrete pig.
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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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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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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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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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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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A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says “Why the long face?”. The horse replies: “I’m deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law.”
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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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