Billy Connolly Quotes

Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.

Billy Connolly

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JobMeYouWorkplaceTellUp

It's not mainland China that rubs me up the wrong way, it is the dictatorship that rubs me up the wrong way. It's the freedom that we Chinese people are not allowed that rubs me up the wrong way.

Jimmy Lai

FreedomPeopleMeWrongWayChina

Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.

Andre Ward

AdversityChampionAheadBeingJust

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

Jeanette Winterson

LifeHeartYouPerfectFindNever

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

Michael J. Fox

ValuePossibilitiesEverythingSee

I love Manchester. I always have, ever since I was a kid, and I go back as much as I can. Manchester's my spiritual home. I've been in London for 22 years now but Manchester's the only other place, I think, in the country that I could live.

John Simm

LoveHomeLiveSpiritualThinkBack

I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.

John Templeton

ProgressEnthusiasmCallRadical

It's not like I'm looking for things that I can direct that I can also act in, but when it's right, I feel like the actor side of me wants to have that opportunity.

Steve Buscemi

OpportunityMeLookingFeelI Can

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

Rupert Everett

GoodI AmThinkHonestTo Be Honest

There is no real third party in America. There's this one party that has two sides to it - the Democratic and Republican side. It's one party that has two heads.

Roseanne Barr

AmericaPartySidesRealRepublican

Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns.

Juan Williams

PowerChildrenMenDeathLawFind

I look at my career as a body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age records. I'm in Eagles of Death Metal, I'm in Them Crooked Vultures; I make records with other people.

Josh Homme

WorkAgeDeathPeopleBodyLook

I love to read profiles about people, but I'm interested in their processes. I only ever do them for newspapers that I love.

Joseph Fiennes

LovePeopleProcessesInterested

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