Christopher Hitchens Quotes
Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
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Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
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Being a pastor's kid comes with a lot of pressure and scrutiny. A lot of my dad's sermons were about respect. It was a beautiful way to be taught about love and two people being equal.
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When I say 'Hey!' you say 'Ho!' Hey! Audience: Ho! Hey! Ho! That's basically how Hitler rose to power.
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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
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There are people with an explicit political bent complaining about people having political agendas while nominating stories with political agendas. Is it political to try to be diverse? Is it political to try to imagine a non-heteronormative society? Yes, because it involves politics. But how do they expect us to not write about our lives?
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We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and adds more meaning and dialogue to hip hop.
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Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.
