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Bill Hicks177 quotes“How would you like to get inside that guy’s mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn’t he?”
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Don’t look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.
Branch RickeyBranch Rickey I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
Billy WestBilly West All day long you see those commercials: ‘Here’s Your Brain, Just Say No’…and the next commercial is: ‘This Bud’s For You.’
Bill HicksBill Hicks If we might be able to save this world, how can we walk away? Too many people around here have given up! Galloran said heroes sacrifice for causes; they do things that others hide from. I may not be some great hero, but I won’t hide from this. I would never live with myself.
Brandon MullBrandon Mull Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.
Bonnie PruddenBonnie Prudden Folks, it’s time to evolve. That’s why we’re troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything’s failing? It’s because, um – they’re no longer relevant. We’re supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?
Bill HicksBill Hicks Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.
Bill HicksBill Hicks We have to modernize how we make laws.
Birgitta JonsdottirBirgitta Jonsdottir People say to me, Hey, Bill, the war made us feel better about ourselves. Really? What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves?
Bill HicksBill Hicks 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!
Bill HicksBill Hicks Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.
Bill HicksBill Hicks 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.
Bill HicksBill Hicks 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’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.
Bill HicksBill Hicks BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You’re not a human being until you’re in my phone book.
Bill HicksBill Hicks My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
Brent ScowcroftBrent Scowcroft
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I am the universe, and every possibility belongs to me.
Courtney PeppernellCourtney Peppernell The only thing that changed about you is me.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays He is my heaven and my hell. Serving passion and poison with the same spoon, and i am a sucker for a taste.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney My mistakes tell me I am quite human, but my brief flashes of brilliance tell me I am divine, too.
Rachel WolchinRachel Wolchin She now finds solace in vanilla-scented daydreams, as her soul sings away in a musical symphony of humid breaths and well-favored smiles.
Megan LaoMegan Lao Some things won’t change-some things can’t.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry My blood is fifty percent alcohol the other half was you.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Darling, you don’t fear love, you fear of loving wrong.
C.R. ElliottC.R. Elliott
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It comes to the one who rests upon the promises of the Word. It comes to the man who lives by faith as if in the actual possession of the answer to his prayer, although the enemy is still around him.
Alan RedpathAlan Redpath It affects people around me, but it was my job to see through that.
Alan PardewAlan Pardew If you’d been where I’d been… if you’d seen the things I’d seen!… you… you’d be me… Or someone following me around.
Alan ParkerAlan Parker because there wasn’t any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
Alan JacksonAlan Jackson You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
Alan PalomoAlan Palomo I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I’d become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia.
Alan DaleAlan Dale On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you’ll see who you are.
Alan Jay LernerAlan Jay Lerner The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.
Alan PalomoAlan Palomo
