Christopher Hitchens Quotes
Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.
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Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better than chocolate ice cream.
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I think making a film that you think is good and you believe in is going to be difficult forever.
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My music is definitely very personal. The songs are about moments, snapshots of everyday life, and about having one's say, or at least feeling like one has had one's say.
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The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.
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I was impressionable at that age, and my high school coach did such an unbelievable job helping me, so I want to do that for other kids.
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We stand by the window embracing, and people look up from the street:it is time they knew!It is time the stone made an effort to flower,time unrest had a beating heart.It is time it were time.It is time.
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Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth
