Christopher Hitchens Quotes

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for 'peace through strength' has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

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• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

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• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

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• Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

  

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• 'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

  

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• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

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• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

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• My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

  

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• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

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• As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.

  

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• I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.

  

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• I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.

  

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• I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

  

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• My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

  

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• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

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• Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

  

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• I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

  

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• That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

  

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• I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I'm proudest of.

  

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• I do have friends in Pittsburgh, and I had some wonderful experiences there.

  

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• The everlasting and paternal wisdom saith, 'Whoso heareth Me is not ashamed.' If he is ashamed of anything he is ashamed of being ashamed. Whoso worketh in Me sineth not. Whoso confesseth Me and feareth Me, shall have eternal life. Whoso will hear the wisdom of the Father must dwell deep, and abide at home, and be at unity with himself.

  

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• Last night we owned, with looks forlorn, 'Too well the scholar knows There is no rose without a thorn' - But peace is made! We sing, this morn, 'No thorn without a rose!' Our Latin lesson is complete: We've learned that Love is Bitter-Sweet!

  

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• The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for 'peace through strength' has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Action
  • Peace