Bill Hicks on creating
Bill Hicks177 quotes“I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind’s sole purpose on this planet. If you’re wondering what I believe our purpose on this planet is, I’ll give you a hint… it has to do with creating and sharing.”
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Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I…am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light…in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.
Bill HicksBill Hicks People often ask me where I stand politically. It’s not that I disagree with Bush’s economic policy or his foreign policy, it’s that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
Bill HicksBill Hicks The role of the comedian is to say ‘Wait a minute’ when a consensus starts to form.
Bill HicksBill Hicks This Bud’s for yooouuuu.” C’mon, everybody, let’s be hypocritical bastards. It’s okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you.
Bill HicksBill Hicks When you’re…stepping over a guy on the sidewalk…does it ever occur to you to think, ‘Wow. Maybe our system doesn’t work?’
Bill HicksBill Hicks Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know one child with a full time job and children.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Bill HicksBill Hicks Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you’ve chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You’re dead too.
Bill HicksBill Hicks Why is pot against the law? It wouldn’t be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can’t make a profit off it, would it?
Bill HicksBill Hicks While I’ve found many of the religious shows I’ve viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I’ve never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet – turning off the TV completely.
Bill HicksBill Hicks How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? …Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?
Bill HicksBill Hicks I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don’t think a Marlboro Light’s gonna faze him that much.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I go to dance clubs…about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going ‘God, what idiots!’
Bill HicksBill Hicks As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
Bill HicksBill Hicks Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves…After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.
Bill HicksBill Hicks
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I don’t act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don’t transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.
Beatrice DalleBeatrice Dalle The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew
Bart D. EhrmanBart D. Ehrman I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
Bebe NeuwirthBebe Neuwirth The majority of fighters now are Al-Qaeda. If you want to support them, you are supporting Al-Qaeda, you are creating havoc in the region, and if this region is not stable, the whole world cannot be stable.
Bashar al-AssadBashar al-Assad Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
Bebe NeuwirthBebe Neuwirth Climate change is…a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem.
Barbara StockingBarbara Stocking The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.
Beatrice M. HinkleBeatrice M. Hinkle You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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