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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.

Billy Connolly

Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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Anthem Boring Country Funny Humor
Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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Arches Audience People
I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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Believe Jesus Teacher
There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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Encouragement Fighting Safe Watching
A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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Offending People Religious
I’d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I’ve been learning more about it as I’ve been doing interviews. I
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Consciously Home Intention Numbers People
Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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Acting Different Discipline
As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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Country Reserves Successful
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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Fraudulence People Pomposity Sometimes Thinking Water
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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Baby Delivery Funny Humor Paddy Probably
I just believe in the movie. I don’t care what the book was like. I don’t care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I’ve got.
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Believe Book Care Film Movie
The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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Country Music Optimism People Wanter
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding’s a mystery to me now. You can’t go back, your life changes every day.
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Become Changing Clothes Life Successful
In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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Differences Everything Funny Menu Travel
Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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Funny Humor Mother
I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.
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Big Fan Fans Home Rottweilers

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