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I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Bill Hicks

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
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?
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Better Esteem Feel Self War
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
I don’t do drugs anymore… than, say, the average touring funk band.
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Average Funny Humor
When you’re…stepping over a guy on the sidewalk…does it ever occur to you to think, ‘Wow. Maybe our system doesn’t work?’
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Doe Guy Occur Thinking Work
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
Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.
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Keith Nuts Plot Runner
[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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Bullshit Comedy Thinking
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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Horrible Kids People Saws
How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? …Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?
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Jobs People Vote
Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added ’em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.
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Added Age Bible People Years
I’ll smoke, I’ll cough, I’ll get the tumors, I’ll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]
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Country Deals Salute
You know what I hate about working? Bosses…The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well…I think you see the conflict.
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Hate Ideas Thinking
Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They’re sick, they’re not criminals. Sick people don’t get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense.
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Criminal Drugs Jail People Sick
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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Light Middlemen Mind Source
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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Empty Life Thinking Tired

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