Christopher Hitchens Quotes
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I try to mix it up! I do a little Pilates. I do a little Cardio Barre; sometimes I run or do the stairs.
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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I've noticed that a lot of people in film always seem interested in music videos, like it's some, like, really exciting thing they've always wanted to do or something.
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I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.
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The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.
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To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.
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One can transform a place by reading in it.
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I always thought to myself, 'I don't want to be doing stand-up when I'm 40 years old.'
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I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world.
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Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
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There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.
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I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
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The normal routine is always the same thing whether it's on a new movie or a new job - there's always a process of getting to know one another. I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it's pretty short-lived - you get to know one another very quickly.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
