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I’m an American who loves an America which doesn’t exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas.

Bill Hicks

…love rather than fear…this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope…surely there is hope for us all.
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Philosophy Radical
What does an atheist scream when they come?
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Atheist Come Scream
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
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Creative Creativity Evolution
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.
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Enjoy Eternal Evening Fantasy Reality
…I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An ‘avenging GOD’? One who created Hell for those who don’t believe?
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Beliefs Children Religion Sorry Superstitious
It’s an insane world, and I’m proud to be a part of it.
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Insane Part Proud World
Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
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Dream Funny Ideas Revolutionary
Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.
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Keith Nuts Plot Runner
I’m a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.
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Funny Humor Two
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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Dad Funny Motivational
I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman…come in the guise of a comic…to heal perception by using…’jokes’.
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Artist Culture Perception Western
All day long you see those commercials: ‘Here’s Your Brain, Just Say No’…and the next commercial is: ‘This Bud’s For You.’
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Brain Bud Commercial Long
Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren’t partyin’.
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Men Ringo Tunes
I was over in Australia during Easter, which was really interesting. You know, they celebrate Easter the exact same way we do, commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children that a giant bunny rabbit left chocolate eggs in the night.
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Bunny Celebrating Commemorating Easter Jesus Kings
And on the seventh day, god stepped back and said and said, “This is my creation, perfect in every way… oh, dammit I left all this pot all over the place. Now they’ll think I want them to smoke it… Now I have to create Republicans.”
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Perfect Thinking Want
I love talking about Kennedy assassination…a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government…sorry, wrong meeting.
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Government Sorry Talking
It’s all about money, not freedom. If you think you’re free, try going somewhere without money, okay?
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Okay Thinking Trying
No one can give you any answers. There aren’t any. You have to discover for yourself-you must learn to navigate the mystery.
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Answers Giving Mystery
You ever seen somebody do that? I’ve seen someone do that. Let me tell you something – if you’re smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I’d think about quitting. And that’s just me, ya know.
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Big Fear Quitting Smoke Something Think
You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know during the Persian Gulf war those intelligence reports would come out: “Iraq: incredible weapons – incredible weapons.” How do you know that? “Uh, well… we looked at the receipts.”
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Country Funny Humor Intelligence War
I love talking about the Kennedy assasination. The reason I do is because I’m fascinated by it. I’m fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that’s interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy.
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Democracy Interesting Jesus Lying Sarcasm
A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.
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Division God Greed Heart Intelligence
We are losing the ‘War on Drugs,’ which means there’s a war going on and people on drugs are winning it.
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Drugs Mean War Winning
I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York… Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!
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Bye Country
I’m sorry if any of you are Catholic. I’m not sorry if you’re offended, I’m actually just sorry by the fact that you’re Catholic.
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Funny Humor Sorry
I’m just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious.
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Collective Ego Trying Unconscious
You’re not a human till you’re in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.
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Book Phones Political

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