Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.
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Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.
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I think probably the first time I recorded anything was mid-2010.
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From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.
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If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?
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The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many jihadists have escaped.
