The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.
BILL HICKSI 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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The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney, its so obviously phoney, ok? It’s a war against our civil rights, that’s all it is. They’re using it to make us afraid to go out at night, afraid of each other, so that we lock ourselves in our homes and they get suspending our rights one by one.
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It’s my object to be stared at like a dog that’s just been shown a card trick.
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I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us…to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.
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I…am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light…in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.
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I’m totally confused about what I’m going to do with my life.
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[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is…thinking, ‘This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.’
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I’m very tired of staring out into your vacant faces looking back at me. Wanting to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn’t possibly think of yourself… Good evening!
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I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind’s sole purpose on this planet.
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It is hard to quit smoking. Every one of them looks real good to me right about now. Every cigarette looks like it was made by God, rolled by Jesus and moistened shut with Claudia Schiffer’s pussy.
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Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive.
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Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren’t partyin’.
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Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Go back to bed America… you are free to do as we tell you… you are free to do as we tell you.
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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 used to drink, I did, I had to quit. Man, I was an embarrassing drunk. I’d get pulled over by the cops, I’d be so drunk I’d be out dancing to their lights thinking I’d made it to another club.
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Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
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