Christopher Hitchens Quotes
If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.
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I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'
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I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.
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'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.
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You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.
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If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.
