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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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.
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I studied classical percussion for ten years.
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I had a really successful 2013, '14, '15. Touring, just doing my thing. Super - I mean, can't complain about nothing. And my road manager got killed. And it ruined everything. Now, I tell people - I don't know if this is a word. But I tell people that that re-sensitized me.
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When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.
