Christopher Hitchens Quotes

If most of those who took part in this one-dimensional debate were honest with themselves, they would admit that they do not in principle believe that the United States can do any good overseas for anyone but the American government, its armed forces, or privileged American elites.

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• When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.

  

  Taylor Kinney
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  • Order
  • Trauma

• The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Financial
  • Depression

• Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Culture
  • Fast
  • Biology

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
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  • Date

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Better
  • Looking

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Work
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  • Community

• It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Alone
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  • Balance

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

  

  Tabitha Soren
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• Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.

  

  Yelawolf
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• I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • Films

• Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Women
  • Me
  • Old

• Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Great
  • Planet
  • Terrorism

• I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Pretty
  • Dance
  • Brother

• Genetic Denim gods, if you're listening, please don't rip, and if you have to, maybe you could have an elf from your warehouse send me another pair... I'm a size 28 and its called 'The Twig' in a dark grayish wash... I will wear them until I die, unless those rips beat me to it.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Die
  • Dark
  • Listening

• I have understood you!

  

  Charles de Gaulle

• I'm not that good looking. That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny.

  

  Psy
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  • Why
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• It must be fun to be you And play with love as you do To treat each new romance As merely one more dance Or just another book to glance through It must be fun to acquire Whatever heart you desire, And when you're bored with it To tear it in two, It must be fun to be you.

  

  Cole Porter
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  • Book
  • Fun

• It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals of genocidal weaponry, true.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • True

• If most of those who took part in this one-dimensional debate were honest with themselves, they would admit that they do not in principle believe that the United States can do any good overseas for anyone but the American government, its armed forces, or privileged American elites.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
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