Billy Connolly Quotes

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

Billy Connolly

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I have strong reasons for being a Democrat. Basically if you want true fairness in society, you want to give a voice in the corridors of power for the people who otherwise would not have it, I believe that will come from the Democratic Party.

Jim Webb

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I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.

John Cleese

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Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

Andre Breton

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I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

Maynard James Keenan

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This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

Angela Bassett

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Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.

Jef I. Richards

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This is where my notoriety comes from right now: from action art.

Michael Israel

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I hope they see the genuine side of me, of my music, of my voice. I hope that they feel me. I hope that what I sing and what I say really gets across to the viewer because everything that comes out is true.

Stefano Langone

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I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion down there.

Tony Hale

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I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

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I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer.

Rupert Penry-Jones

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We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.

Lorrie Fair

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