Bill Hicks Quotes
Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.
Quotes to Explore
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
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I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.
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My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.
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Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.
