Christopher Hitchens Quotes
The progress that's made … in any argument or in any discussion is by confrontation. That's a dialectical fact. People say 'oh let's have less heat and more light,' fatuously. There's only one source of light. It happens to be heat.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I find the business world hard.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I'm not a real estate developer. I'm a golfer. I'm a sportsman.
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In this fast-developing world, particularly in the fast-transforming China market, we really need to take this opportunity and offer a modern interpretation of Scandinavian design which fits people's demands perfectly.
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You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.
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Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.
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The progress that's made … in any argument or in any discussion is by confrontation. That's a dialectical fact. People say 'oh let's have less heat and more light,' fatuously. There's only one source of light. It happens to be heat.
