Bill Hicks Quotes
(On drug laws): Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.
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But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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I'm not hard to get along with.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!
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I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
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If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.
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I've been studying on my own. I'm not really trained. I went to school for about a year and a half. I never really studied music, but, I mean, I did. I studied for two years, maybe.
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Ever present, potent, vigilant, in the breast of man, there is that which never became a party in his guilt, never consented to a wrong deed, nor performed one, but holds itself above all sin, impeccable, immaculate, immutable, the deity of the heart, the conscience of the soul, the oracle and interpreter, the judge and executor of the divine law.
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The best mind-altering drug is truth.
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(On drug laws): Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become.
