They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer
BILL HICKSYou 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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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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Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs…shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a ‘well-regulated militia’?
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What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves?
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If you don’t think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD’s and burn them.
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I ascribe to Mark Twain’s theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.
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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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You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. “I believe God created me in one day”. Yeah, looks like He rushed it
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not all drugs are good.. some of them are great
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I’d…bet enthusiasm for ‘ethnic cleansing’ will wane if only sticks and rocks are available for the warring parties.
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I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.
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I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns.
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Isn’t that weird, we’ve made nature against the law. That’s how un-natural we’ve become.
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I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
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When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.
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I don’t identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.
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A Christian will say… “I believe God created me in one day” Yeah, looks liked He rushed it.
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In Australia…they celebrate Easter the same…by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit…left chocolate eggs in the night
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I can’t watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.
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Rock stars against drugs–that’s what we want, isn’t it? Government-approved rock-n-roll? Woo! We’re partying now!
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Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
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I don’t mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that’s how it comes out.
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We are one with God and He loves us. Now if that isn’t a hazard to this country-How’re we gonna keep building nuclear weapons?
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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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Just one thing I know for sure, chicks dig jerks.
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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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I saw…a kid on a leash. You seen these people? Kid on a leash? How horrible. Put him in the pound where he belongs.
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