Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I don’t believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don’t want to say I don’t believe in God, but I don’t think I do. But I believe in people who do.
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I’d always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.
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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it’s like they’re in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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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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In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it’s folded.
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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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The more you know the less the better.
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