Bill Hicks Quotes
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again.
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A lot of artists do music that never sees the light of day, and I know fans wanna hear it, but – sometimes – we get very selective or labels get selective about what they put out, but, nowadays, everything is digital with social media and people just wanna hear what you’re up to, what you’re doing.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.
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Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.
