My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
BILLY CONNOLLYA well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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There’s nothing like it, but it’s not as good as you think it’s going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club’s badge – but not a sausage.
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It’s my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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Try to live in a place you like.
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