[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is…thinking, ‘This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.’
BILL HICKSWe all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
More Bill Hicks Quotes
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Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that’s their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm… Sounds like… every commercial on television, doesn’t it?
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How are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we’re all one?
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I can’t believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.
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No, I don’t do drugs anymore, either. But I’ll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I’ll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it’s not a very popular idea, you don’t hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth,
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I was in Australia….Lotta leg room down under. Apartments: dollar a month. 2000-acre den….think of the parties.
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BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You’re not a human being until you’re in my phone book.
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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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I can’t watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.
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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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Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day.
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Jesus-murdered. Martin Luther King-murdered. Gandhi-murdered. Malcolm X-murdered. Reagan-wounded.
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Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
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Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who’ve helped me.
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Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.
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A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.
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