Billy Connolly Quotes

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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My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

Jez Butterworth

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Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

John Bolton

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Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.

Jeremy Corbyn

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By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.

John Nelson Darby

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I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Max Beckmann

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For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

Moby

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The Fed should not be responding to the ups and downs of the markets, and it is certainly not our policy to do so. But when there are significant financial developments, it's incumbent on us to ask ourselves what is causing them.

Janet Yellen

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Too many leaders are so caught up in the momentum of work that they lose sight of the opportunity to connect with people. I discovered that the more fully present I was with other people, the more fully present they were with me, and the more productive our relationship became over time.

Douglas Conant

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America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

Arianna Huffington

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I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.

Ashley Bell

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The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

Alma Guillermoprieto

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A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

William Nicholson

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