Christopher Hitchens Quotes
And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
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I don't know if it's because my father's from Argentina, that I'm the son of an immigrant, I don't know if its because I'm Jewish, but I have always been mindful that the best insights occur when you have some kind of an outsider perspective.
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'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so many characters. As an actress, to see African-American actors be so diverse was different from what I was used to seeing.
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My soul is still Irish.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.
