I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
BILLY CONNOLLYDon’t vote, it only encourages them.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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 still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it’s not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
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Outgrew the media… The negativity felt like a disease.
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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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I’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.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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Don’t work out, work in.
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Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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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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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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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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