I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. … - Billy Connolly

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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

Billy Connolly

I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.

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If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.

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If you're going to do an interview about a movie or anything like that, you're vulnerable. You say stupid things. Or if you're applying for a green card you feel very vulnerable and you're likely to spout out something stupid in the middle of it all.

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It's my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.

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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.

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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

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Robert Reich

It's almost as if we have two lobes in our brain. There's the consumer and investor mode, and we're doing better and better at that lobe. But at the producer and seller mode, we have to work harder and harder. And the better we do as consumers and investors - the easier it is for us to choose something better, to exit every commercial relationship - the harder we have to work as sellers and producers. One follows from the other.

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Russell Peters

If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman. . . You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.

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David Mitchell

I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.

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Eddie Van Halen

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

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Che Guevara

And then many things became very clear. . . we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

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