Bill Hicks on united states
Bill Hicks177 quotes“People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn’t share with itself.”
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I was a weekend drinker…I’d start on Saturday, end on Friday…thought I was controlling it…but I don’t drink any more.
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Bill HicksBill Hicks I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us…to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.
Bill HicksBill Hicks 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.
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People who don’t know how to love you are always going to hurt your heart.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta I no longer seek the love I think I deserve but rather the love I’ve always deserved.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole There is no such thing as a good investment.
Manish KhuntetaManish Khunteta Without you, I’m lost.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch I did everything I could to make it work I was casting nets into the ocean and all they were doing was returning back empty.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados We flew to heaven, and we touched the sun.
Jennifer JulietteJennifer Juliette You told me everything would be okay. I wish you had said – you’ll hurt but I’ll hold you.
Ullie KayeUllie Kaye Be brave, be bold, beware that you must believe before becoming.
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There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.
Bill McCollumBill McCollum See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you’ve got the money!
Bill HicksBill Hicks The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
Bill VaughanBill Vaughan It is my privilege to have introduced House Resolution 1612 honoring the Constitution of the United States, and the freedoms and rights it has given to every American.
Bob LattaBob Latta I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.
Bernard-Henri LevyBernard-Henri Levy The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn’t have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn’t get as far as Hoboken at that time.
Ben ShahnBen Shahn There are a lot of chapters to the banjo’s history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it’s a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.
Bela FleckBela Fleck It’s very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.
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