Christopher Hitchens Quotes

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals... But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.

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• As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.

  

  Natalie Zea
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• I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Think
  • Age

• I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Learning
  • Internet

• Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Change

• With age comes common sense and wisdom.

  

  Nas
  • Age
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• I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Age
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• My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Good
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• Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Confused

• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Great
  • Age

• I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Home
  • Age
  • Travel

• Politics is the one field you don't age out of.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • You
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• I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
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• I believe that God wants us to show respect.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Business
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• Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Age
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• Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

  

  Ira Gershwin
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• My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Age
  • Black
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• My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Age

• It is natural that one cannot understand deep and hidden things. Those things that are easily understood are rather shallow.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Deep

• You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

  

  LeBron James
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

  

  Alexandre Aja
  • Movie

• When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Writing
  • You
  • Delivery

• I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.

  

  Alan Arkin

• 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals... But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Age