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Christopher Hitchens Quotes

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Christopher Hitchens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011

Topics

I would love to work with my dad! We've never done anything live together. I'm always open to working with talented people, and I think my dad certainly qualifies.

Jennifer Grey

Work Love Live Together People Done

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.

Robert Kennedy

Children Frustration Grow Poverty Up

I worked for Union Pacific. I started out as a conductor at an intermodal switching facility outside of Salt Lake City. We'd pull in trains from all over the country, break them apart, consolidate the freight, and build other trains. It was great until I screwed up and took a management position. Then it became no fun very quickly.

Sturgill Simpson

Great Fun City Management Lake Salt

I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.

Michael Pena

People Me Name Know Want Out

You can't undo a deportation.

Jonathan Shapiro

You Undo Deportation

We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.

Douglas Rushkoff

Time Best World Driving Attention

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff, too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels'.

Drew Barrymore

Day Men Cool Action Thought Movies

I come from Canada, and maternity leave is six months to a year, and they also have paternity leave, and I think that there's something to that. There's also something to making a more comfortable environment for women to breast feed or to bring their kids into work and to have more nurseries in these office buildings.

Cobie Smulders

Work Women Think Year Buildings

The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.

Brendon Burchard

Positive Success Failure People View

The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.

Paul Weller

Music Time Unique Jazz Songwriting

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

Tina Weymouth

People Wild Starting Out Idea Like

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

Rick Danko

Myself Spring Me Night Year Play