Christopher Hitchens Quotes
It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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She bets the doubles and the parlays, a guaranteed way to stay busted.
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Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.
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I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.
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Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.
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It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.
