Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.
Bill HicksRead
When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of questioning consensus and exploring contrary viewpoints.
Bill Hicks suggests that when a majority of people come to an agreement on a particular issue, he instinctively feels compelled to challenge that consensus. This reflects the idea that conformity can stifle critical thinking, and that it is essential to consider opposing perspectives in order to reach deeper understanding and truth.
In practice
In a debate, one might use this quote to highlight the importance of opposing viewpoints.
Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.
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?
We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings.
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.
There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .
Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. _x000D_ When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.
The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation.
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