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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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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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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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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My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
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There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.
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When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.
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When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.
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A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.
