Bill Hicks on dad
Bill Hicks177 quotes“I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, ‘My dad can beat up your dad.’ I’d say ‘Yeah? When?’”
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We’re supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?
Bill HicksBill Hicks …love rather than fear…this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope…surely there is hope for us all.
Bill HicksBill Hicks What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion?
Bill HicksBill Hicks I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself – to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution. OK, not the most popular idea ever expressed. Either that or you’re all real high and agreeing with me in the only way you can right now. (Starts blinking)
Bill HicksBill Hicks I’ve had good times on drugs…bad times on drugs…But I’ve had good and bad relationships…and I’m not giving up pussy.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I don’t get along with anything, I really don’t…I’m, I’m, maybe I’m just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being.
Bill HicksBill Hicks This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I’m an American who loves an America which doesn’t exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas.
Bill HicksBill Hicks We really are All One….this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.
Bill HicksBill Hicks It’s my object to be stared at like a dog that’s just been shown a card trick.
Bill HicksBill Hicks In the beginning God created the heavans and the earth… see you at the final.
Bill HicksBill Hicks We are losing the ‘War on Drugs,’ which means there’s a war going on and people on drugs are winning it.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine!
Bill HicksBill Hicks I smoke to fill the potholes in my soul
Bill HicksBill Hicks Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
Bill HicksBill Hicks
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Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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I played with Mike Dunleavy Jr., and we got a great relationship on the Warriors. Knowing him and now knowing his dad, all I know is he’s a man of his word. Anything that he’s ever said to me has been honest and I respect that.
Baron DavisBaron Davis Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time – very inspiring and dramatic.
Bat for LashesBat for Lashes I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
Bear GryllsBear Grylls He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of BlackburnBarbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn (Man, I wish life had emoticons, you know? So that when your dad pisses you off you could like click a mental button or something and just show him one of those rolleyes. That would rock) Anyway.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
Bat for LashesBat for Lashes I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
ShakiraShakira I was a momma’s boy. I didn’t get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
Barry BondsBarry Bonds
