Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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Of course managers win ball games.
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I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
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A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
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Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
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Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
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Just say no to drugs!
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Books are still my favorite present.
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I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superheroes, when Superman is presented to you, I felt like I was in a unique position to say 'I get this guy. I know what this is.'
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I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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A jest breaks no bones.
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He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Can you look at a flower without thinking?
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À partir de cet instant, je n’avais plus un seul pas à faire, le sol marchait pour moi dans ce jardin où depuis si longtemps mes actes avaient cessé d’être accompagnés d’attention volontaire: l’Habitude venait de me prendre dans ses bras et me portait jusqu’à mon lit comme un petit enfant.
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Stolen sweets are best.
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Let them do what I have done.
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When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.
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I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.
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I was hesitant to go around and shake hands, just go up and stick my hand out to strangers. Then I learned to stick my hand out.
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The value of a loving family cannot be understated.
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The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.
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No, no...that is what our minds demand. We look for patterns
