Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Christopher Hitchens

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• We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Style
  • Forget
  • Heritage

• For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Music
  • Car
  • Listen

• Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Tears

• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Intent

• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Life
  • Star

• The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Change

• What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Myself
  • Best

• I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • News
  • Evening

• Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Care
  • Couple

• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Botox

• My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Funny

• I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Trouble
  • Because
  • Get

• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • First
  • Read

• I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Drugs
  • Tone

• Paris somehow lends itself to conceptual new ideas. I don't know why it is. There is a certain magic to that city.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Why
  • City
  • Magic

• You rebel not only for what you can achieve, but for who you become. In the end, those who rebel require faith - not a formal or necessarily Christian, Jewish or Muslim orthodoxy, but a faith that the good draws to it the good. That we are called to carry out the good insofar as we can determine what the good is.

  

  Chris Hedges
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Christian

• These false answers - such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small - are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD.

  

  Meher Baba
  • Great
  • God
  • Small

• Now you're telling me You're not nostalgic Then give me another word for it You who are so good with words And at keeping things vague Because I need some of that vagueness now It's all come back too clearly Yes I loved you dearly And if you're offering me diamonds and rust I've already paid

  

  Joan Baez
  • Good
  • Words

• Catching the right fleeting moment, with the right focus, is a very difficult thing to do.

  

  Ren Ng
  • Focus
  • Moment
  • Difficult

• Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

  

  Christopher Hitchens