Spike Milligan
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"Sir Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan" Order of the British Empire/KBE, was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor of Irish and English parentage, and Irish nationality. His early life was spent in British India/India, where he was born but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He disliked his first name and began to call himself Spike, after hearing a band on Radio Luxembourg called Spike Jones and the City Slickers.

He claimed his right to Irish nationality law/Irish citizenship (as a child of an Irish citizen), after the British government declared him statelessness/stateless. He was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the popular Eccles (character)/Eccles and Minnie Bannister characters.

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It's all in the mind, you know.

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Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?

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Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.

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And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and the earth brought forth grass and the Rastafarians smoked it.

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It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

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I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

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Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

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For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

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All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

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Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

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Listen, someone's screaming in agony - fortunately I speak it fluently.

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A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

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