Hicks Quotes

• Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. 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 Hicks

  Fear, Eye, Gun

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Funny, Humor, Places To Go

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• Nobody's good. I hate it. I truly hate it. I mean, there's a lot of guys doing stuff I admire, but stand-up-wise I feel very alone. I really miss Bill Hicks. I wish I could have put him on my show. And I really miss Sam Kinison a lot. Richard Pryor's sick... It's like you get here and then, oh wait a minute, there's nobody here any more. I feel like the guy who finally got into Studio 54, three years too late, Duh, where are all the famous people?

  Chris Rock

  Wise, Hate, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He's probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can't say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.

  Ron White

  Years, Comedian, Listening

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• I brought something back from those experiences [with drugs] which made me softer, open to other ideas. And I've learned from listening to other people talk about their experiences, from listening to Bill Hicks or reading Terrence McKenna or Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. But there's always some dumb cop out there who says "We don't need another legal drug and there's psychological addiction and blah blah blah."

  Joe Rogan

  Reading, Ideas, Listening To Others

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Phil Hicks was the guy that was in the ROTC, that was going to go into the Vietnam War and thought that was the responsibility of the citizen.

  Judd Nelson

  War, Responsibility, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it's very important to look at the letters that are in my book, because unlike some of the recent published letters, I have both the personal and the political. And their relationship is about ardor. It's about fun. And it's also about politics.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Fun, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that being on the road and doing more and more stand-up has allowed me to figure out... like, I don't think I'll ever be Bill Hicks, but I think I'm figuring out what my opinion is on things.

  Nick Kroll

  Thinking, Bills, Opinion

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.

  Kristen Stewart

  New York, Fun, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.

  Tom Waits

  Brain, Vision, Bills

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• I'm a fan of Bill Hicks. He did things that no other stand up did at the time. He was making fun of religion, at that time it was a lot harder to say those things in the States than it was here. To slag off Christianity and fundamentalist Christians, and to be pro drugs and anti gun in the deep south, that's a big ask. And he did that and made it funny. Bill Hicks was able to say things that he really thought, and he managed to make those thoughts funny without a care if it antagonised people.

  Ed Byrne

  Christian, Fun, Gun

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• However, what Article VI [of the U.S. Constitution] does not do, and was never intended to do, is deny me the right to say, as loudly as I may choose, that I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate but who does not have the elementary intelligence to recognize the fact that this is what he is.

  Mike Huckabee

  Stupid, Doe, May

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• Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town I suppose filled with farmers and rednecks and racists cops who stop every Indian that drives through. During one week when I was little dad got stopped three times for DWI- Driving While Indian.

  Sherman Alexie

  Dad, Redneck, Wheat Fields

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• I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.

  Marc Maron

  Couple, Distance, Guitar

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• I was initially cast as Corporal Hicks, and I was fired after a couple weeks of filming because I got busted for possession of drugs, and Michael Biehn replaced me.

  James Remar

  Couple, Drug, Week

  "Rare Pics Of James Remar In James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’ Before He Was Fired" by Nicholas Laskin, www.indiewire.com. Novemebr 14, 2014.

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• Bill Hicks is a huge influence. I love him.

  Daniel Tosh

  I Love Him, Bills, Influence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I might not understand everything a Democrat or liberal thinks but hey let's be honest, I don't understand some of the things the Republicans think, but that doesn't make me some dumb hick that doesn't have the right to live here.

  Angie Harmon

  Thinking, Dumb, Hey

  "QA: Angie Harmon on Raising Three Girls and 'Coming Out' as a Republican in Hollywood". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2011.

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• The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him

  Michael Mori

  Reality, Justice, Doe

  "Al Qaeda man faces tribunal", www.cnn.com. August 26, 2004.

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• Like I say, it's almost embarrassing to talk about. I don't know if Michael Jordan or Bill Gates or Alexander the Great or anyone is worth this type of money, but that's the market we're in today. That's what Mr. Hicks decided to pay me, and now it's time to pay him back and win a couple championships.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Couple, Winning, Pay

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• Only man is a narcissistic enough species to think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel across billions and billions of light-years- a group of aliens so intelligent, so insouciant, so utterly above it all, they feel no need whatsoever to equip their spacecraft with windows so that they can gaze out on all that celestial beauty-but then immediately upon landing, their first impulse is to get in some hick's ass with a flashlight.

  Dennis Miller

  Intelligent, Men, Thinking

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• If you're dumb enough to volunteer for the army, I don't see why we're supposed to feel so bad when you get shot. I'm not saying we should throw a party or anything, but is it such a tragedy? If I'd gotten shot before I made 'Garden State', yeah, that's a tragedy, but some red-state hick getting his legs blown off? Come on.

  Zach Braff

  Party, Army, Garden

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• When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

  Joe Rogan

  Years, Careers, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

  Simon Pegg

  Humanity, Bills, Comic

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• he ones that bother me the most are the media saying, "He's like the next Bill Hicks." It's supposed to be complimentary, but then all these Bill Hicks fans show up thinking you're going to be like him, and then go, "You're no Bill Hicks." And I'm like, "I never wanted to try to be like him, I don't think I'm anything like him at all, and now you're mad at me for not being him because a journalist didn't have a better reference."

  Doug Stanhope

  Thinking, Media, Mad

  "Portrait of the artist: Doug Stanhope, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2012.

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• There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't know. It's just where my parents had sex."

  Josh Radnor

  Sex, Parent, Comedian

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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