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?
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.
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