Bill Hicks Quotes
on the Gulf War I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I must always, always have a box of Extra chewing gum in my bag because I have developed a terrible cheek-chewing compulsion. It's not only uncomfortable, but I look really weird when I'm doing it, and chewing gum is the only way I can stop myself.
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The Internet, in particular, offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity, this is something truly good, a gift from God.
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Those whom we love are often the most alien to us.
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It’s the jihadists who decided to make the world a battlefield and to wage war in perpetuity. Until they abandon the field, what choice do we have but to carry the fight to them?
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on the Gulf War I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops.
