Christopher Hitchens Quotes
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
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The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
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My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.
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I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.
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If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.
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I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
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There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
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Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
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I loved campaigning for Obama.
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I could be a much better role model by sharing more openly with him my shadow side, my faults, my mistakes, asking him to be my teacher rather than being his.
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Today a new generation has taken charge of Labour. A new generation that understands the core of change
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Not I but the world says it: All is one.
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It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
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Lo! I am Beauty's constant thrall, Must ever on her voice await, And follow through the maze of Fate Her luring, strange and mystical.
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Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
