Bill Hicks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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It gets late early out there.
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'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.
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I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
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I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
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When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.
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There have been times when I've felt inappropriately emotional. I remember making 'The Most Hated Family in America' about the Westboro Baptist Church, and being on the way to a funeral of a U.S. soldier with the Phelps family; they were going to picket the funeral.
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The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.
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I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.
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Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in part only, for like all things else, when nourished and supplied plentifully with ailment, it is rapid in its progress; but let these be withdrawn and it may be stifled in its birth or much stinted in its growth.
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I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.
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We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
