Christopher Hitchens Quotes
I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.
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I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.
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From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Was I a businessman to start with? I'm not sure. I mean, that comes slowly, when you start having the products out. But at the same time, I was very determined. I knew that I had to make it work. I had no choice.
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I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
