Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Taleggio is the perfect cheese to melt over a warm dish.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
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Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
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Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.
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I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine.
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I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.
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To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
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The reason is not simply because of my opinion of him. It is because it is unimaginable that you can stop the civil war there when the overwhelming majority of people in Syria consider him to be a brutal, murderous dictator.
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Quòd tertio loco à nobis fuit obſeruatum, eſt ipſiuſmet LACTEI Circuli eſſentia, ſeu materies, quam Perſpicilli beneficio adeò ad ſenſum licet intueri, vt & altercationes omnes, quæ per tot ſæcula Philoſophos excrucia runt ab oculata certitudine dirimantur, nosque à verboſis dſputationibus liberemur.
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'Everything is art. Everything is politics.'
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In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
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Alcohol-inspired fights … are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
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It doesn't matter in MMA if you're a woman or a man. You're going to fight 5 rounds, 5 minutes per round. If they want a real world champion, then the fights should be 12 rounds, 3 minutes per round for a woman boxer and you'll weed out some of the world championship fighters.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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I always wanted to have a young female artist that would tell me the truth about life and not only talk about the good things or the things that were exciting or interesting but also talk about the things that people in general are skeptical to talk about- the bad things that do happen. A good 50% of our lives is things that are happening that we're not necessarily super thrilled about and I feel like that's missing from pop music a lot of the time so my main goal is to be truthful about everything and not just specific things.
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Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.
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Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.
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Religion is innately irrational.
