Frases de Bill Hicks
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William Melvin "Bill" Hicks foi um comediante, crítico social, e músico norte-americano. Seu material, que abrange uma ampla gama de questões sociais, incluindo a religião, política e filosofia, foi controverso, e muitas vezes mergulhada na comédia de humor negro. Ele criticava o consumismo, a superficialidade, a mediocridade e banalidade dentro dos meios de comunicação e cultura popular, que ele caracterizou como instrumentos de opressão da classe dominante que mantem as pessoas "estúpidas e apáticas".

Aos 16 anos, enquanto ainda estava no colegial, ele começou a se apresentar no Comedy Workshop em Houston, Texas. Durante a década de 1980, ele viajou extensivamente pelos Estados Unidos e fez uma série de aparições de alto-nível na televisão. Mas foi no Reino Unido que ele acumulou uma base significativa de fãs, enchendo grandes locais durante sua turnê de 1991.Ele também atingiu um mínimo de reconhecimento como guitarrista e compositor.

Hicks morreu de câncer pancreático em 26 de Fevereiro de 1994, em Little Rock, Arkansas, com apenas 32 anos de idade. Nos anos seguintes - em particular depois de uma série de lançamentos de álbuns póstumos - sua obra ganhou um grau significativo de elogios nos círculos criativos. Alguns comediantes que citaram Hicks como influência incluem Margaret Cho, Joe Rogan, Lewis Black,Patton Oswalt, David Crosse Russell Brand Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Dezembro 1961 – 26. Fevereiro 1994   •   Outros nomes Bill Melvin Hicks, 比爾·希克斯, بيل هيكس
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Bill Hicks: Frases em inglês

“Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.”

Variante: I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.

“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love.”

Revelations (1993)
Contexto: The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. 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. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

“I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.”

Statement written weeks before his death in 1994, as quoted in "Unseen Bill Hicks Clip" in Esquire (3 February 2014) https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/news/a5661/unseen-bill-hicks-clip/

“They're puttin' music to AIDS germs--putting a drum machine behind them and a metronome beat and Ted Turner's colorizing them, goddamn it. These aren't even really people, man. It's a CIA plot to make you think malls are good. Don't you see?”

Sane Man (1989)
Contexto: Rick Astley? Have you seen this banal incubus at work? Boy, if this guy isn't heralding Satan's imminent approach to Earth, huh. "Don't ever wanna make you cry, never wanna make you sigh … never gonna break your heart" … oh, I wouldn't worry about that without a dick, buddy. You got a corn nut! You got a clit! You're not even a guy! You're an AIDS germ that got off a slide! They're puttin' music to AIDS germs, they're puttin' a drum machine behind them in a metronome beat and Ted Turner's colorizing 'em, God damn it! These aren't even people man! It's a CIA plot to make you think malls are good!! Don't ya see? (Imitates stereotypical American in a robotic manner) "But Bill, malls are good! Malls allow us to shop 365 days of the year at a 72 degree heat. That must be good."

“All governments are lying cocksuckers.”

Philosophy: The Best of Bill Hicks (2001)