"Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years."
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"A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman."
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"You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly."
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"So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs."
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"[after accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman] You are a woman, aren't you?"
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"If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
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"You could do with losing a little bit of weight."
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"We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!"
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"What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer."
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"But we are not going to be able to survive on this limited planet if the population keeps on growing: there isn't going to be anything left."
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"Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed...We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war."
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"I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff."
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"Do you still throw spears at each other?"
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"It's no use saying do this, do that, don't do that ... it's very easy when children want something to say no immediately. I think it's quite important not to give an unequivocal answer at once. Much better to think it over. Then, if you eventually say no, I think they really accept it."
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"It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people."
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"It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on."
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"If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she isn't interested."
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"I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist. I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus."
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"British women can't cook."
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"I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money."
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