The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.
BILL HICKSSo, it’s good to be here, wherever I am.
More Bill Hicks Quotes
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England, where no one has guns: 14 deaths. United States…23,000 deaths from handguns. But – there’s no connection.
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If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender.
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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.
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I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, “Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest.” This guy was reaching.
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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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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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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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We’ll see who believes in me now. I am the Prankster God – I am killing me!
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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.
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Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
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I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. 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.
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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.
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What before seemed a…frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.
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There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue – those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS – but they remain strangely silent.
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We really are All One….this is the very philosophy that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for fifteen years.
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