Bill Hicks Quotes

I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.

Bill Hicks

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Great
  • Coffee
  • Smoking

• Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Up
  • Art
  • Walking

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

• As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Beats

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Being
  • Thing

• GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

  

  Nas
  • Game
  • Voice
  • Fearless

• You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Change
  • Thought

• Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.

  

  La India
  • Home
  • Singing
  • English

• However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Free
  • Problem
  • Travel

• I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Pretty
  • Poetry
  • Inspired

• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • First
  • Read

• I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Way
  • Person
  • Feel

• Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Blow

• Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Book
  • Well
  • Memoir

• Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Different
  • Book
  • You

• After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Country
  • Real
  • Man

• Barzai knew so much of the gods that he could tell of their comings and goings, and guessed so many of their secrets that he was deemed half a god himself.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • God

• What man can blameThe Greekes and Trojans to endure, for so admired a Dame,So many miseries, and so long? In her sweet countenance shineLookes like the Godesses.

  

  George Chapman
  • Long
  • Sweet

• Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.

  

  Angela Lansbury
  • Believe
  • Night

• Whatever you do, please don’t think of sleep as wasted time, an indulgence, or a generous reservoir from which you can steal time for work. Do what your brain and body beg you to do: get enough sleep.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Indulgence

• I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Night
  • Sleep