Bill Hicks Quotes
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
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California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire.
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I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.
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Most of my time as a legislator, I served in the minority. So I'm used to getting the heel of a loaf of bread.
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Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.
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Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.
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You have to have courage to be obedient to God.
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Growing up, when I was younger, I didn't feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.
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These types of films that are psychologically sort of dark at times, I find extremely exciting to do because there's always something to think about. There's nothing more boring than to show up on set and say a line and know that your character means exactly what they say. It's interesting to have an unreliable narrator in a film and that's what both of those films have been.
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They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.
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I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
