Bill Hicks Quotes
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.
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I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
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You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging.
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What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.
