Christopher Hitchens Quotes
A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.
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It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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No, I've never moved on with a play. I did the original 'Closer' in London but didn't transfer to the West End or Broadway with it. The same is true of 'Iceman': I didn't go to the Old Vic or Broadway with that. I don't know; I feel an allegiance often to the play where you do it first, in the theatre that it's in; you do it for that space.
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I don't think anything can prepare you for a crew to come in and actually film you as yourself. It's kind of frightening to think that all of a sudden people are going to know how you are, and how you act on a day-to-day basis.
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I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.
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I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.
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A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.
