Quote #11

Speaking to a driving instructor in Scotland, he asked: 'How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?'[1]

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  1. It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.
  2. When visiting China in 1986, he told a group of British students, 'If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed'.[1]
  3. You have mosquitos. I have the Press.
  4. After accepting a gift from a Kenyan citizen he replied, 'You are a woman, aren't you?'[1]
  5. The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
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  8. In 1966 he remarked that 'British women can't cook.'[1]

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