"My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger."
-Billy Connolly
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"Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.“
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"My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo."
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"Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on."
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"Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit."
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"I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be."
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"I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives."
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"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
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"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
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