Bill Hicks Quotes
Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.
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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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My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.
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That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'
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The laws were very comical; to bet was voted lax,But your betting was the only thing that nobody could tax.
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As the 19th century teetered into the 20th, the clank of typewriter keys went from solo to symphony. They were the weapon of choice for professional writers, the business elite, people with things to say and the need to say them quickly.
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It is blood which moves the wheels of history.
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Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.
