Bill Hicks Quotes
takes a drag of his cigarette Mmmm mmmm, tastes like steak and potatoes doesn't it? Mmmm.
Quotes to Explore
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In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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They hate whom they fear.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
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A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.
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I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
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Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die
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I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.
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Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.
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I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.
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takes a drag of his cigarette Mmmm mmmm, tastes like steak and potatoes doesn't it? Mmmm.
