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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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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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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I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
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None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.
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Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
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A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.
