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Bill Hicks [1961-1994] American
Rank: 101
Comedian


William Melvin "Bill" Hicks was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician. His material, encompassing a wide range of social issues including religion, politics, and philosophy, was controversial, and often steeped in dark comedy.

Death, Funny, Imagination, Best, Great, Humor, Medical, Patriotism, Women



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I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.
101
If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries. Medical
102
I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.
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Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.
104
I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.
105
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious. Funny, Humor
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Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.
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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. Funny
108
Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to. Great, Women
109
When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.
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I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked. Patriotism
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The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.
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The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light. Best
113
People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
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As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
115
Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
116
I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
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We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
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Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. Imagination
119
I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.
120
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
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We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free. Death
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I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
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If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.
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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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I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.
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There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Death, Imagination
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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 began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.
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Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.
204
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
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And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.
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