Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.
Interpretation
Embrace your uniqueness and authenticity when expressing yourself.
Bill Hicks emphasizes the importance of being true to oneself, especially in public settings like a stage. By encouraging individuals to be authentic, he highlights that one's unique perspective is irreplaceable, and that authenticity creates a demand for the genuine expression of self, which is valued by audiences.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-acceptance.
I'm not into those kind of rivalries. I remember standing out in front of Stratford, minding my own business. Carload of about eighty kids would pull up: 'STRATFORD SUCKS!' Am I supposed to run after these guys? I'd just stand there, you know. They'd back up. 'STRATFORD SUCKS! ...STRATFORD SUCKS!' I'd say, 'I know. I go there. You're wasting gas, man.
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!'
Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake.
To make marijuana against the law is like saying God made a big mistake.
What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion?
Marijuana grows naturally...Don't you think making nature against the law seems a bit, I don't know, unnatural?
I don't like the label 'plus-size' -- I call it 'fiercely real.' On 'Top Model,' we call it fiercely real. I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here.
I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.
I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic. But every ocean has a shoreline and every shoreline has a tide that is constantly returning to wake the songbirds in our hands, to wake the music in our bones, to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born river that has to run through the center of our hearts to find its way home.
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