[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is…thinking, ‘This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.’
BILL HICKSLet’s do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who’ve seen me before might know that.
More Bill Hicks Quotes
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It’s not a war on drugs, it’s a war on personal freedom.
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Do I have a message? Yes, I do. Here’s my message: as scary as the world is – and it is – it is merely a ride …
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You are the imagination of yourself.
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You’re not a human till you’re in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.
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Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves…After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.
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I go to dance clubs…about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going ‘God, what idiots!’
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We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
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I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, ‘What’s wrong?’ Nothing. ‘Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.’ Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?
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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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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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If I thought the Jews killed God, I’d worship the Jews.
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To me pornography is…spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons.
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Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let’s put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.
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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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People are bringing SHOTGUNS to UFO sightings…brings a whole new meaning to that phrase ‘You ain’t from around here, ar’ya?’
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